Steve Sion

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Steve Sion is a former American bridge player.

Bridge accomplishments

Awards

Wins

Runners-up

Sion-Cokin Affair

Steve Sion and his regular partner Alan Cokin were convicted of cheating in 1979. [11] They were banned, though their American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) memberships were reinstated five years later. Sion was convicted of cheating again in 1997 and was expelled from the ACBL.

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The cheating convictions make his bridge accomplishments suspect.

Notes

  1. "NAP Winners". ACBL. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
  2. 1 2 "GNT Previous Winners". ACBL. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
  3. "Jacoby Open Swiss Previous Winners". ACBL. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
  4. "Lebhar Imp Pairs Winners". ACBL. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
  5. "Mitchell BAM Winners". ACBL. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
  6. "Mixed BAM Previous Winners". ACBL. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
  7. "Wernher Open Pairs Winners". ACBL. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
  8. "Reisinger Winners". ACBL. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
  9. "Spingold Previous Winners". ACBL. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
  10. "von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs Previous Winners". ACBL. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
  11. "Dirty Hands". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-01-18.

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