The David Bruce LM–5000 Pairs bridge event is held at the Summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship. It is open to all players who have earned Life Master status up to 5,000 masterpoints. The event is held at the same time as the Von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (open to all Life Masters) and the Young LM-1500 Pairs event.
The trophy is named in honor of David Bruce, the first player to achieve Life Master status in the ACBL.
Winners
+Winners of David Bruce LM–5000 Pairs Year Winners Runners-up 2003 Mark Bartusek, John Jones Craig Zastera, Stanford Christie 2004 Henry Meyer, Brian Gunnell Jane Dillenberg, Jerry Goldberg 2005 David Maidman, Marin Marinov Will Engel, Jim Melville 2006 Mike Cassel, Andy Kaufman Al Blinder, Craig Zastera 2007 Karl Hicks, Brian Alexander Barry Purrington, Michael Cassel 2008 Steve Johnson, Mark Teaford Daniel Lavee, Barbara McLendon 2009 Carolyne Fox, George Fox Cindy Sealy, Owen Lynch 2010 Michael McNamara, Sylwia McNamara Barry Falgout, Rusty Krauss 2011Howard Engle, Mark WeismanSam Miller, Marc Passman 2012Donald Caplin, Zachary GrossackJeff Ruben, Andrew Stayton 2013Randy Thompson, Barry SpectorDavid Wakeman, Rita Wakeman 2014Ronald Kay, Joe HoudeRobert Bernstein, Jay Barron 2015Norman Schwartz, Richard ReitmanKevin Bolan, Ron Beall 2016Michael Smith, Susan Smith H John Edmonds, Larry Kahn From 2017 onward, the masterpoint limited was raised to 6000 masterpoints 2017 Daniel Bertrand, Allan Simon H Hunt, Zachary Brescoll 2018 JJ Johnsen, Rick Gold Jenny Lin, Aaron Jones2019Henri Farhi, Norman SchwartzPhilip Goulding, Robert Zimmermann
References
List of previous winners, Page 5
2009 winners, Page 1
External links Special Conditions of Contest for the Bruce LM-5000 Pairs. Retrieved from the ACBL official website December 28, 2016.