2012 ABT PLAYER OF THE YEAR
NEIL KAZAROSS
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FINAL 2012 AMERICAN BACKGAMMON TOUR STANDINGS
Top three finishers win trophies. 1st through 20th earn solid silver dollar mementos.
| # | NAME | PTS. |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neil Kazaross | 44.98 |
| 2 | Alfred Mamlet | 38.04 |
| 3 | Victor Ashkenazi | 35.64 |
| 4 | Carter Mattig | 26.45 |
| 5 | Ted Chee | 25.20 |
| 6 | Phil Simborg | 25.00 |
| 7 | Steve Sax | 23.09 |
| 8 | Howard Markowitz | 22.55 |
| 9 | Masayuki Mochizuki | 22.22 |
| 10 | Stick Rice | 21.78 |
| 11 | Mike Senkiewicz | 21.51 |
| 12 | Ray Fogerlund | 21.38 |
| 13 | Bill Davis | 21.33 |
| 14 | Ed O'Laughlin | 19.64 |
| 15 | Gary Bauer | 18.94 |
| 16 | Grant Schneider | 17.82 |
| 17 | Matt Cohn-Geier | 16.48 |
| 18 | Jeb Horton | 16.33 |
| 19 | Mark Andrus | 16.07 |
| 20 | Barry Silliman | 14.81 |
| 21 | Bill Phipps | 14.25 |
| 22 | Cheryl Andersen | 13.71 |
| 23 | Justin Nunez | 13.30 |
| 24 | Stacy Turner | 13.30 |
| 25 | Steve Sherbel | 11.64 |
| 26 | John O'Hagan | 11.60 |
| 27 | Frank Talbot | 11.60 |
| 28 | Bob Glass | 11.27 |
| 29 | Alan Grunwald | 10.60 |
| 30 | Keene Marin | 10.48 |
| 31 | Arthur Sutton | 9.10 |
| 32 | David Rennie | 8.80 |
| 33 | Peter Wisniewski | 8.73 |
| 34 | Julius High | 8.73 |
| 35 | Oleg Raygorodsky | 8.62 |
| 36 | Sal Chehayeb | 8.51 |
| 37 | Jesse Eaton | 8.40 |
| 38 | Falafel Natanzon | 8.35 |
| 39 | Bill Calton | 8.17 |
| 40 | Patrick Gibson | 7.80 |
| 41 | Jeremy Bagai | 7.80 |
| 42 | John Jennings | 7.80 |
| 43 | Heribert Lindner | 7.80 |
| 44 | Patty Geoffroy | 7.62 |
| 45 | Tom Fahland | 7.60 |
| 46 | Alex Owen | 7.22 |
| 47 | David Escoffery | 7.20 |
| 48 | Alan Epstein | 6.80 |
| 49 | Phyllis Shapiro | 6.77 |
| 50 | Chen-Fu Yu | 6.67 |
| 51 | Damon Singer | 6.66 |
| 52 | Alex Gerding | 6.64 |
| 53 | Cengiz Yakut | 6.47 |
| 54 | Mark James | 6.25 |
| 55 | John Klein | 6.25 |
| 56 | Gary Margosian | 6.25 |
| 57 | Greg Adamavich | 6.20 |
| 58 | Jeff Acierno | 6.11 |
| 59 | Steve Brown | 6.10 |
| 60 | Dennis Culpepper | 5.91 |
| 61 | Neal Weiner | 5.86 |
| 62 | Michael Margosian | 5.82 |
| 63 | Michael Flohr | 5.80 |
| 64 | Tak Morioka | 5.80 |
| 65 | Marv Porten | 5.80 |
| 66 | Alvaro Savio | 5.56 |
| 67 | Akiko Yazawa | 5.56 |
| 68 | Sandra Sha | 5.45 |
| 68 | Judy Field | 5.38 |
| 70 | Dmitriy Obukhov | 5.33 |
| 71 | Emil Mortuk | 5.33 |
| 72 | Michael Edge | 5.04 |
| 73 | Fernando Neumark | 5.04 |
| 74 | Frank Raposa | 5.04 |
| 75 | Steve Hess | 4.96 |
| 76 | Roz Ferris | 4.96 |
| # | NAME | PTS. |
|---|---|---|
| 77 | David Presser | 4.90 |
| 78 | Rob Tansi | 4.84 |
| 79 | LEW Webber | 4.73 |
| 80 | Gus Contos | 4.58 |
| 81 | Bob Carpenter | 4.50 |
| 82 | Lawrence Wilson | 4.48 |
| 83 | Steve Hast | 4.45 |
| 84 | Joe Roth | 4.40 |
| 85 | Doug DeWitte | 4.40 |
| 86 | Lee Genud | 4.40 |
| 87 | Stuart Thomson | 4.40 |
| 88 | Malcolm Davis | 4.36 |
| 89 | Bruce Ballance | 4.20 |
| 90 | David Taniguchi | 4.10 |
| 91 | Eric Hiner | 4.10 |
| 92 | Rachel Rhodes | 4.08 |
| 93 | Tobias Hellwag | 4.08 |
| 94 | Arkadiy Tsinis | 4.07 |
| 95 | Antonio Ortega | 4.07 |
| 96 | Odis Chenault | 3.90 |
| 97 | Gerry Tansey | 3.90 |
| 98 | Wendy Kaplan | 3.90 |
| 99 | Nash Jost | 3.80 |
| 100 | Irving Gold | 3.80 |
| 101 | Abby Biss | 3.80 |
| 102 | Cloyd Laporte | 3.70 |
| 103 | Keith Gershenson | 3.70 |
| 104 | Kevin Ahtou | 3.60 |
| 105 | Tom Zarrinnam | 3.60 |
| 106 | Dorn Bishop | 3.60 |
| 107 | Richard Weaver | 3.60 |
| 108 | Rob Farmer | 3.58 |
| 109 | Vadim Nuniyants | 3.58 |
| 110 | Robert Lessard | 3.33 |
| 111 | Lorenzo Morales | 3.33 |
| 112 | Bob Schumacher | 3.20 |
| 113 | Yury Millman | 3.20 |
| 114 | Perry Gartner | 3.20 |
| 115 | Gregg Cattanach | 3.20 |
| 116 | Don Marek | 3.17 |
| 117 | Donny Lomuto | 3.15 |
| 118 | Bob Koca | 3.13 |
| 119 | Andy Palumbo | 3.00 |
| 120 | Prince Barlow | 2.91 |
| 121 | Chuck Bower | 2.90 |
| 122 | Steve Klesker | 2.90 |
| 123 | Mario Savan | 2.90 |
| 124 | Jesse Jestadt | 2.90 |
| 125 | Peter Zacks | 2.82 |
| 126 | William Womack | 2.80 |
| 127 | Stan Livingston | 2.80 |
| 128 | Kit Woolsey | 2.78 |
| 129 | Ben Elliott | 2.70 |
| 130 | Carol Joy Cole | 2.67 |
| 131 | Dan Gruby | 2.50 |
| 132 | Aaron Foust | 2.48 |
| 133 | Ethan Nissani | 2.48 |
| 134 | Azzam Masarani | 2.40 |
| 135 | Maria Heiner | 2.38 |
| 136 | Tim Mabee | 2.23 |
| 137 | Mark Gordon | 2.23 |
| 138 | Paul Berg | 2.23 |
| 139 | Dan Burke | 2.20 |
| 140 | Bill Riles | 2.20 |
| 141 | Petko Kostadinov | 2.04 |
| 142 | Carl Bommarito | 2.03 |
| 143 | Dan Wittkopp | 2.03 |
| 144 | Bill Harpell | 1.90 |
| 145 | Donald Gabbai | 1.85 |
| 146 | Milton Gonzalez | 1.85 |
| 147 | Ruben Martirosyan | 1.85 |
| 148 | Rick Wolf | 1.85 |
| 149 | Steve Binenstock | 1.80 |
| 150 | Hugh Morris | 1.80 |
| 151 | Larry Liebster | 1.80 |
| 152 | Claudia Imatt | 1.80 |
| # | NAME | PTS. |
|---|---|---|
| 153 | Larry Arnold | 1.80 |
| 154 | Dan Cramer | 1.79 |
| 155 | Sue Will | 1.79 |
| 156 | Jim Opre | 1.79 |
| 157 | Blaine McClendon | 1.78 |
| 158 | Joan Grunwald | 1.75 |
| 159 | Steven O'Connor | 1.75 |
| 160 | Roger Abbey | 1.69 |
| 161 | Richard Catalano | 1.69 |
| 162 | Steve Grund | 1.67 |
| 163 | Bruce Russell | 1.60 |
| 164 | Mike Corbett | 1.60 |
| 165 | Mark Murray | 1.55 |
| 166 | Joe Potts | 1.55 |
| 167 | Susan Randall | 1.50 |
| 168 | Marc Grutka | 1.50 |
| 169 | Alvin Reed | 1.45 |
| 170 | Dale Rose | 1.45 |
| 171 | Erwin Hom | 1.42 |
| 172 | Cliff Mayoh | 1.38 |
| 173 | Craig Anderson | 1.35 |
| 174 | Fouad Maroun | 1.33 |
| 175 | Dan Smith | 1.24 |
| 176 | Al Lunder | 1.24 |
| 177 | Comet | 1.20 |
| 178 | Hideo Tateno | 1.20 |
| 179 | Pam Dodsworth | 1.11 |
| 180 | Michelle Andersen | 1.10 |
| 181 | Erik Sawyer | 1.10 |
| 182 | Gina Hartwick | 1.10 |
| 183 | Stephen Collins | 1.06 |
| 184 | Jonathan Leusden | 1.00 |
| 185 | Brian DeMatt | 1.00 |
| 186 | Harry Glinos | 1.00 |
| 187 | Ghada Ashoo | 0.98 |
| 188 | Larry Saltzman | 0.95 |
| 189 | John Skratulia | 0.95 |
| 190 | Michael Earl | 0.95 |
| 191 | Kathy Weiner | 0.95 |
| 192 | Shawn Cary | 0.94 |
| 193 | George Steele | 0.94 |
| 194 | Brandon Macklin | 0.93 |
| 195 | Jim Ryan | 0.93 |
| 196 | Jim Kennis | 0.93 |
| 197 | John Zimdars | 0.90 |
| 198 | Kyle Wagner | 0.90 |
| 199 | Gordon Miller | 0.89 |
| 200 | Mike Clapsadle | 0.89 |
| 201 | Fran Miller | 0.88 |
| 202 | Ken Andonisio | 0.88 |
| 203 | Julia Sommer | 0.88 |
| 204 | Nick Retzkin | 0.88 |
| 205 | Marcy Kossar | 0.85 |
| 206 | Dave Settles | 0.85 |
| 207 | Larry Andersen | 0.83 |
| 208 | Max Crosner | 0.83 |
| 209 | Amber McLean | 0.75 |
| 210 | Alan Timm | 0.67 |
| 211 | Doreen Saccardo | 0.65 |
| 212 | Rich Hallbeck | 0.63 |
| 213 | Ken Brown | 0.63 |
| 214 | Randy Hromadik | 0.63 |
| 215 | Joe Davidson | 0.56 |
| 216 | Andrew Wice | 0.55 |
| 217 | Daniel Roybal | 0.55 |
| 218 | Katherine Hochberg | 0.50 |
| 219 | Stephen Earl | 0.48 |
| 220 | D. Westra-Hanaback | 0.48 |
| 221 | Michael Corman | 0.44 |
| 222 | Suzanne Auer | 0.44 |
| 223 | Sheri Peters | 0.44 |
| 224 | Ed Salem | 0.44 |
| 225 | Dimitur Alipiev | 0.43 |
| 226 | Kevin Kahl | 0.31 |
| 227 | Robert Hartley | 0.28 |
| 228 | Sonia Delima | 0.11 |
2012 ABT TOURNAMENT WINNERS
Sunshine State Classic (Tarpon Springs, Florida; Dec. 7-9)
Open (18): Victor Ashkenazi (NJ)
Intermediate (12): Andy Palumbo (FL)
Novice (7): Ed Salem (FL)
California State Championship (Los Angeles, California; Nov. 30-Dec. 2)
Open (48): Steve Sax (CA)
Advanced (38): Tom Fahland (CA)
Limited (5): Randy Hromadik (CA)
Las Vegas Open (Las Vegas, Nevada; Nov. 14-18)
Championship (75 + 21 rebuys): Masayuki Mochizuki (Japan)
Advanced (67 + 25): Cheryl Andersen (CA)
Novice (19): Bill Harpell (Canada)
Illinois State Championships (Peoria, Illinois; Oct. 5-7)
Championship (39): Neil Kazaross (IL)
Advanced (31): Greg Adamavich (WI)
Novice (8): Fouad Maroun (Lebanon)
Pittsburgh Labor Day Championships (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Aug. 31-Sep. 3)
Championship (58): Alfred Mamlet (MD)
Advanced (34): Patty Geoffroy (MA)
Novice (7): Fran Miller (OH)
Golden Gate Open (South San Francisco, California; Aug. 16-19)
Championship (24): Ted Chee (CA)
Intermediate (24): Mark James (CA)
Beginner (4): Ghada Ashoo (CA)
Wisconsin State Championships (Madison, Wisconsin; Aug. 10-12)
Championship (29): John O'Hagan (IN)
Advanced (28): Sal Chehayeb (MI)
Novice (3): Amber McLean (IL)
Minnesota Open (Bloomington, Minnesota; July 20-22)
Open (16): Keene Marin (WI)
Intermediate (18): Kevin Ahtou (MN)
Michigan Summer Championships (Novi, Michigan; July 5-8)
Open (75): Phil Simborg (IL)
Intermediate (64): Steve Sherbel (MI)
Novice (16): Blaine McClendon (PA)
Los Angeles Open (Los Angeles, California; June 8-10)
Open (62): Howard Markowitz (NV)
Advanced (44): David Rennie (CA)
Limited (15): Maria Heiner (CA)
32nd Chicago Open (Rosemont, Illinois; May 24-28)
Open (64): Bill Davis (IL)
Intermediate (33): Jesse Eaton (MN)
Novice (8): Harry Glinos (IL)
Florida Championship (Fort Lauderdale, Florida; May 11-13)
Championship (16): Neil Kazaross (IL)
Intermediate (5): Dan Gruby (FL)
Beginner (3): Dimitur Alipiev (FL)
Atlanta Spring Classic (Atlanta, Georgia; Apr. 27-29)
Championship (22): Stacy Turner (FL)
Advanced (27): Alan Epstein (GA)
Novice (2): Katherine Hochberg (GA)
Nevada State Championships (Las Vegas, Nevada; Apr. 18-22)
Championship (45): Neil Kazaross (IL)
Intermediate (45): David Escoffery (CA)
Beginner (5): Max Crosner (CA)
Ohio State Championships (Cleveland, Ohio; Mar. 23-25)
Open (24): Stick Rice (OH)
Advanced (30): Chen-Fu Yu (MD)
Novice (6): Brian DeMatt (OH)
Central States Invitational (Rosemont, Illinois; Mar. 9-11)
Championship (49): Jeb Horton (NC)
Advanced (43): Oleg Raygorodsky (IL)
Limited (10): Steven O'Connor (IL)
Pittsburgh Championships (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Feb. 17-19)
Open (49): Grant Schneider (VA)
Advanced (44): Phyllis Shapiro (MO)
Novice (10): Pam Dodsworth (PA)
New Mexico State Championship (Santa Fe, New Mexico; Jan. 26-29)
Open (29): Frank Talbot (MI)
Advanced (20): Judy Field (MI)
Novice (22): Dan Burke (NM)
2012 US Open (South San Francisco, California; Jan. 13-16)
Championship (39): Ted Chee (CA)
Intermediate (29): Marv Porten (CA)
Beginner (6): Erwin Hom (CA)
New York Metropolitan Open (Jersey City, New Jersey; Jan. 5-8)
Championship (55 + 15 rebuys): Victor Ashkenazi (NJ)
Intermediate (50 + 10 rebuys): Arthur Sutton (NJ)
Beginner (14): Joan Grunwald (NJ)
