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Cavendish 2005

#1 User is offline   Aberlour10 

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Posted 2005-April-14, 19:24

Hello Everybody!

The Cavendish Invitational 2005 is coming soon....

I would like to invite you for a following contest-
the rules are very simply:
We try to guess the TOP 6 of the pairs event,
for every exactly guess of the place you will earn 2 points,
for every pair you have in TOP 6 you become 1 point

You will find the starting field of the pairs event at:

http://www.thecavendish.com/

Have fun :lol:
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My winning line up:

1) F. Fantoni -C.Nunes
2) E. Greco - G. Hampson
3) B. Hamman - Zia Mahmood
4) C. Balicki - A.Zmudzinski
5) B. Moss - F. Gitelman
6) M. Lanzarotti-A. Buratti
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Posted 2005-April-15, 01:38

1. Balicki - Zmudzinski
2. Fantoni - Nunes
3. Buratti - Lanzarotti
4. Zia - Hamman
5. Kwiecien - Bizon
6. Gromov - Dubinin
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Posted 2005-April-15, 03:42

1) Andrei Gromov - Alex Dubinin
2) Czary Balicki - Adam Zmudzinski
3) Fulvio Fantoni - Claudio Nunes
4) Steve Garner - Howard Weinstein
5) Peter Fredin - Magnus Lindkvist
6) Sam Lev - Jacek Pszczola
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Posted 2005-April-15, 04:02

1. Fantoni - Nunes
2. Sadek - El Ahmady
3. Zmudzinski - Balicki
4. Zia - Hamman
5. Fredin - Lindkvist
6. Lanzarotti - Buratti

Sorry Fred ;)

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Posted 2005-April-15, 04:20

1) Brad Moss - Fred Gitleman
2) Bobby Levin - Steve Weinstein
3) Norberto Bocchi - Giogerio Duboin
4) Eric Greco - Geoff Hampson
5) Fulvio Fantoni - Claudio Nunes
6) Bob Hamman - Zia Mahmood
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Posted 2005-April-15, 04:39

Easy.


1. Fantoni - Nunes (No one will/can beat them)
2. Bocchi - Duboin (The italians are the best right now)
3. Johnson - Meckstroth (If there are many 3NT boards, they will be in top 3. Else place 20 something)
4. Balicki - Zmudzinski (Here or they will be dead last)
5. Fredin - Lindkvist (Go Sweden!)
6. Hamman - Zia (Because Zia is Zia and Bob is Bob)
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Posted 2005-April-15, 09:07

1. Sadek / El Ahmady
2. Bocchi / Duboin
3. Fantoni / Nunes
4. Bramley / Lazard
5. Lev / Pszczola
6. Lanzarotti / Buratti

And my sentimental pick: Chris Larsen / Gene Freed, although I wish Chris was playing with Joe Kivel.
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Posted 2005-April-15, 09:55

Similar to many although I failed to get any locals into the list.

1. Sadek / El Ahmady
2. Fantoni / Nunes
3. Bocchi / Duboin
4. Balicki / Zmudzinski
5. Lanzarotti / Buratti
6. Gromov / Dubinin

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Posted 2005-April-15, 10:05

Andrei Gromov - Alex Dubinin
Massimo Lanzarotti - Andrea Buratti
Czary Balicki - Adam Zmudzinski
Fulvio Fantoni - Claudio Nunes
Sam Lev - Jacek Pszczola
Bocchi - Duboin
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Posted 2005-April-15, 19:18

1. fantoni/nunes
2. gromov/dubinin
3. duboin/bocchi
4. sadek/el ahmady
5. lanzarotti/buratti
6. greco/hampson
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  Posted 2005-April-15, 23:32

top 3:

1. Fantoni-Nunes (I want these two, on my team, at any time).
2. Fallenius-Wellan (I have good feeling, and their system, sswweeeett).
3. Buratti-Lanzarotti (these two are surging).
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Posted 2005-April-16, 00:16

1. Fantoni - Nunes
2. Sadek - El Ahmady
3. Bocchi - Duboin
4. Levin - Weinstein
5. Lanzarotti - Buratti
6. Johnson - Meckstroth
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Posted 2005-April-16, 03:05

1. Bocchi -Duboin
2. Balicki - Zmudzinski
3 Fantoni - Nunes
4. Levin - Weinstein
5. Gitelman - Moss
6 Hamman - Zia
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Posted 2005-April-19, 17:09

1. Balicki-Zmudzinski (take a look at Gatlinburg results)
2. Lev-Pszczola (a repeat?)
3. Fantoni-Nunes (how can you not?)
4. Duboin-Bocchi
5. Fallenius-Welland
6. Gromov-Dubinin
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Posted 2005-April-24, 06:05

1. Sam Lev - Jacek Pszczola
2. Czary Balicki - Adam Zmudzinski
3. Brad Moss - Fred Gitleman
4. Fulvio Fantoni - Claudio Nunes
5. Bob Hamman - Zia Mahmood
6. Joe Grue - Curtis Cheek
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Posted 2005-May-07, 02:59

TOP 6 after 2nd session:

1)- Bobby Levin - Steve Weinstein
2)- Norberto Bocchi - Giorgio Duboin
3)- Cezary Balicki - Adam Zmudzinski
4)- Bob Hamman - Zia Mahmood
5)- Eric Greco - Geoff Hampson
6)- Andrea Buratti - Massimo Lanzarotti

still 3 sessions to go....
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Posted 2005-May-07, 11:31

Could someone explain more on the auction?

All the money $9xx,000 make up by the players?

Everyone (indivudual or a pair?) has to make a bet?

Does someone make a bet of $5x,xxxx that Bocchi-Duboin winning?

Do we know how much and whom each player bet on?

Are the players all very rich ?!


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Posted 2005-May-07, 11:38

I'm sure that someone else can do a better job explaining, so I shall leave it to them. I just wanted to mention that "Bridge Bum" by Alan Sontag has a big section on a contest of this type (I don't remember if it was the Cavendish or not, my memory for names is awful) and it's one of the more interesting sections of the book, and might give you a fell for what goes on in this competition.
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Posted 2005-May-07, 11:45

Hi Andych,

Fred explained it last year..

http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?sho...cavendish&st=31
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Posted 2005-May-08, 03:09

Top 10 after 4th session:
1. Buratti - Lanzarotti 2667 - 2. Lambardi - Ventin 2298 - 3. Levin - Weinstein 2020 - 4. Hamman - Zia 1950 - 5. Balicki - Zmudzinski 1827 - 6. Cohler - Willenken 1349 - 7. Greco - Hampson 1259 - 8. Berkowitz - Pollack 1225 - 9. Multon - Quantin 1146 - 10. Goren - Wolpert 1067
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