Tennis players and golfers rarely have the opportunity to play against the legends of their game.  One of the attractions of playing in a Bridge Regional Tournament is the opportunity to meet and play against some of the world's best players.  Regional organizers depend on Team Sponsors to bring top players to the tournaments.  It is a thrill for players to meet the best players, teachers, and authors.  World class players give the tournament organizer the opportunity to attract much needed publicity to our great game.  Team Sponsors get many benefits from competing with their pro team:

• Thrill of competing at the top-level
• Tips to help them improve
• Help achieving their bridge goals

Pittsburgh is fortunate to have Grand Life Master Reanette Frobouck support our clubs during the Spring, Summer, and Fall.  Reanette's teams make Regionals more compelling by giving local players the opportunity to meet and play against some of the best players in the world.  

Here is an article from District 9's "Sunshine News" September-November, 2025 issue.

Vero Beach Player Wins Greenville Tourney

By Pieter VanBennekom
Vero Beach Bridge Club member Reanette Frobouck and her merry band of traveling professionals recently won the Greenville, South Carolina, Regional tournament, one of the more popular and well-attended Regionals around the country.  Held annually in the month of June, the tournament, known as the Heritage, always draws a strong contingent of professionals at the top of the game but also a sizable number of club and tournament players – there were up to 7 brackets in some of the team events.

“I am always proud to represent Vero Beach at these events,” said Frobouck, whose ACBL membership is still based in Pittsburgh, PA, but has spent the winter seasons for more than 20 years in Vero Beach. “Our home club in Vero Beach offers strong competition.”  On the final Sunday of the tournament, Frobouck’s team bested two other teams that tied for second and third place by 15 International Match Points (IMPs) to nail down first place overall in the standings. That win in the Sunday teams was worth 16.08 points.

The runner-up teams in that event were anchored by Jonathan Steinberg from Toronto, Canada, and Jerry Helms from Charlotte, NC, the columnist. Frobouck’s other team members were David Bakshi from London, England, and Geoff Hampson and Daniel Korbel, both now resident in Las Vegas, NV.  For the week-long tournament held at the local Hyatt hotel, Frobouck and her teammates accumulated a total of 110.31 MasterPoints, which topped a couple of pairs players who hadobtained 109 points by winning several Open pairs events.

A team anchored by Eric Rodwell was a just a little back with a total of 108.80 points and just a bit further down on the honors list were a team led by Diane Gordy and Jerry Stamatov with 86.93 points, and another pro team spearheaded by yet another Florida-based player, Kevin Dwyer.

Frobouck’s team did not start out like a house on fire, but made a strong comeback later in the week.  In the first knock-out event stretching over Monday and Tuesday, they managed only a tie for third and fourth place, getting knocked out before the final round.  That loss enabled them to enter a single-session Swiss team event on Tuesday afternoon, which they won by 5 IMPs over a team of local Carolina players.  The Frobouck team did win the next two-day knock-out event over Wednesday and Thursday, beating a team headed by Dwyer and his Swedish wife, Cecilia Dwyer-Rimstedt, in the final.

In the Saturday bracketed teams event, Frobouck’s team tied for second place with a team that included the Grand Master of the Universe, Jeff Meckstroth. The top spot there went to the team of Jerry Helms, the local Carolina pro.  Frobouck sponsors teams at several Regionals and Nationals around the country, but she never sits out any session, unlike many other pro team sponsors. Bakshi, the Londoner, has been on several of her teams, while other members have rotated over time.

Frobouck herself is ranked among the top 100 players by MasterPoints around North America with somewhere around 23,000 points.  The Greenville tournament is sponsored by District 7, which includes the Deep South states of the Carolinas, Georgia, Eastern Tennessee and the extreme southwestern corner of Virginia, and always draws many Floridians.  This year attendance ran ahead of last year at 105% and was projected to reach a total of 1,709 tables.