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Rehoboth Beach hosts hundreds of bridge players

Second time for American Contract Bridge League District 4 tournament at convention center
The American Contract Bridge League District 4 tournament was held in Rehoboth Beach the week of May 1. Hundreds of players attended the event. CHRIS FLOOD PHOTOS
Chris Flood
May 13, 2023

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Rehoboth Beach Convention Center
229 Rehoboth Avenue
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
United States

Bridge players from up and down the Eastern Seaboard recently competed in the second annual Rehoboth Beach Regional.

Tournament co-chair Kim Holm said about 600 players from Nova Scotia to Florida participated in the weeklong District 4 regional hosted by the American Contract Bridge League. Primarily, the players were from Virginia, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York and New Jersey, he said, adding the average age of members is 76.

At any one time, 360 people were playing on 90 tables.

“We’re in every nook and cranny,” said Holm.

Next year’s tournament has been scheduled for Monday, April 29 through Saturday, May 4. For more information on District 4 of the American Contract Bridge League, go to 4acbl.org or email contact@4acbl.org. 

 

Tables were set up in every corner of the convention center.
Player Diane Gordy lives in Palm Beach, Fla., but is a local property owner with her husband Sike Sharigan, who has owned a number of restaurants over the years including Fran O’Brien’s, Zebra and Obie’s.
American Contract Bridge League President Joann Glasson shows off her lucky pen.
Sheets with the day’s 24 hands on it.
Boards sit ready to be used.
Board-carrying cases are open and ready to use.

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Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.

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