RealBridge Bidding Contest - April 2024 Rankings

Bettering by one the highest score amongst the panelists this month, the solo winner of the April competition, with an almost perfect score of 79/80, is ...

 

Paul Dubois

Paul Dubois from San Diego CA, USA
Paul led all entrants in the April competition, with a score of 79/80 that even bettered the leading score on the panel. Having finished in the Top 20 in last year’s annual competition with an average of over 70/80, he is amongst the leaders in this year’s race. Paul is a retired architect for large scientific codes. He has written a book on bidding for advancing players, which is available to all for free at pfdubois.com.

 

Other competitors on the April Honour Roll are, with a score of 78/80, are…

 

Stephen Merriman from New Zealand,
Alexander Cook from Australia,
Peter Brook from England, and
Dave Williams from Wales.

 

This is Stephen’s second consecutive appearance on the monthly Honour Roll. Both Alexander and David and previous winners of the annual competition.

 

…and, with a score of 77/80:

 

Pete Law from Kent, England

 

With four players from Europe and one from China having led all competitors over the first three months of the year, we finally have our first winner from the Americas. We also have three players from the UK on this month’s list too.

 

Congratulations to everyone who scored in the 60s or 70s on what was another tricky set of hands.

 

 

Top 25

Paul Dubois

USA

79

Stephen Merriman

New Zealand

78

Alexander Cook

Australia

78

Peter Brook

UK

78

David Williams

UK

78

Peter Law

UK

77

Gareth Birdsall

UK

76

Stephen Turner

UK

76

Vincent Lui

Hong Kong

75

Bob Boudreau

USA

75

Todd Holes

USA

75

Jeremy Jones

UK

74

Paul Grünke

Germany

74

Kevin Podsiadlik

USA

74

Lysandra Zheng

New Zealand

74

Luwen Koh

Singapore

74

Paul Boudreau

USA

74

Gaston Mejane

France

73

Vincent Perez

France

73

Tim Pan

New Zealand

73

Mike Xue

Canada

73

Andrew Doye

UK

73

Patrick Shields

UK

73

Girish Bijoor

India

73

Heather Motteram

Australia

72