Frank T. "Nick" Nickell (born 1947) is an American

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player. He graduated from the

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, and lived in

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, as of 1994. Nickell was inducted into the

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in 2008. At the time he lived in New York City and led the private equity investment firm

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. Nickell has created one of the most dominant bridge teams of all time, winning four world championships and multiple

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. He formed a successful partnership with Richard Freeman until Freeman's death and has since partnered with

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. He has won both team events and pair events. Nickell is an ACBL Grand Life Master.

Bridge accomplishments

Honors

* ACBL Hall of Fame, 2008"Induction by Year"
''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-12-21.

Awards

* Fishbein Trophy (1) 1995

Wins

* Bermuda Bowl (4) 1995, 1999, 2003, 2009 *

(24) **

von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs The Von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). Usually called simply the "Life Master Pairs" or "LM Pairs", this is a six-ses ...

(2) 2003, 2022 ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 1991 ** Vanderbilt (4) 2000, 2003, 2014, 2017 ** Reisinger (7) 1993, 1994, 1995, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 ** Spingold (9) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2006, 2007 ** Senior Knockout Teams (1) 2016 * United States Bridge Championships (9) ** Open Team Trials (9) 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2017

Runners-up

* Bermuda Bowl (2) 1997, 2005 *

(15) **

Grand National Teams The Grand National Teams (GNT) North American bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Grand National Teams is a team knockout event. The event is broken into ...

(1) 1983 ** Vanderbilt (4) 1996, 2002, 2018, 2019 ** Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1998, 1999, 2012 ** Spingold (2) 2011, 2012 ** Roth Open Swiss Teams (2) 2015, 2018 ** Senior Knockout Teams (2) 2017, 2018 ** Reisinger (1) 2014 * United States Bridge Championships (1) ** Open Team Trials (1) 1997

References

External links

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ACBL NABC Winners -Nick Nickell
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