EISK wins national bridge tourney team title

The EISK team won the 13th National Open Bridge Championship organised by the Punjab Bridge Association and Steel Strips Group. The team became the champion with 89.30 points while the Steel Strip team was the runners-up with 88.87 points. Mansarovar secured the third position with 82.87 points and Sri Radhe’s team secured the fourth position with 67.24 points.

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In the pair group, Anil Bharihoke and RK Garg won the title with 891.17 points, followed by the pair of Ramkrishna Majumder and Bhaskar Sarkar at second position with 870.49 points. The duo of KR Vijayanad Singh and Pradeep Singh secured the third position with 867.60 points and the duo of Soumadeep Ghosh and Arya Chakraborty secured the fourth position with 857.81 points.

In the team event, the first four teams were also given cash prizes of Rs 1 lakh, Rs 75,000, Rs 60,000 and Rs 50,000, respectively. Similarly, the pairs who came in the first four places in the pair group were given cash prizes of Rs 50,000, Rs 45,000, Rs 40,000 and Rs 35,000, respectively. President of Punjab Bridge Association and former Chief Secretary of Punjab KR Lakhanpal awarded the winners.