ACBL District 15

Meet Shelba Parmley,Tournament Chairman for the Unit 167 Oklahoma City tournament where she has been the Tournament Chair since 2005.  Shelba attributes the success of the Oklahoma City tournaments to her Co-Chairman,Barbara Whittlesey along with the wonderful cooperation of the many volunteers. She would like to invite everyone to Oklahoma City,where they will receive some of the greatest hospitality they will find at a tournament.

Shelba worked in the Tax Department as a CPA for Peat,Marwick,Mitchell for  several years. After retiring from there,she worked her investments while  teaching part-time in the accounting Department at Oklahoma City University. Her  passion is “Bridge”where she has attained the Platinum Level. She is very active in  promoting bridge in the Oklahoma Unit 167. She is a teacher,director, owner/partner of the Bridge Center of OKC and serves on Unit Board and the  District Board. Shelba says one of her greatest delights is seeing 15 to 20 tables of  new players at play.

Gary Roberts and Craig Schallert won the Flight A bracket of the  North American Pairs competition on Saturday Oct 9th in Kansas City earning  the right to represent District 15 at the nationals in Louisville this fall. Gary and Craig are long time partners who have won many regionals and have represented District 15 in national competitions several times.  Gary played the following dummy particularly well…

	North A10xx Qxxx xxx A10		East,Gary’s right hand opponent opened a weak 11-14 point NT which Gary doubled for penalties.  Left hand opponent re-doubled saying to run and right handed opponent ran to his 6 card diamond suit. Gary and left hand opponent both passed. Craig came to life and bid 3 diamonds. Gary bid 3 spades and Craig raised him to game. Left hand opponent led his doubleton diamond.  Right hand opponent won the lead with the ace of diamonds,cashed the king of hearts and returned a diamond. Gary won the diamond return and then pulled two rounds of trumps ending in his hand. Next,Gary led a club to the 10 which held the trick!  He then cashed the ace of clubs and pulled the last trump using the the king and queen of clubs to throw two hearts from dummy. Contract Making!. Gary finessed his left hand opponent out of his only face card to make the contract. Well played Gary and good luck in Louisville!
West xxx 109x xx Jxxxx		East Jx AKJ AJxxxx xx
	South KQxx xxx KQ KQ9x
East South West North Gary Craig 1NT Double Pass Pass 2D Pass Pass 3D Pass 3S Pass 4S 1NT = weak,Double = penalty,ReDouble = run