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Mike Cappelletti

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Armand Michael Cappelletti, known as Mike Cappelletti (1938 to 2013), was an American lawyer best known as a bridge player and poker authority. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he later lived in Alexandria, Virginia, where he practiced for the U.S. Department of Justice and then as a public defender in Washington, D.C. In poker he wrote several books on Omaha and was a columnist for the magazine CardPlayer. In bridge he invented the Cappelletti convention, became an American Contract Bridge League Grand Life Master with more than 24,000 masterpoints, and won North American Bridge Championships events in 1967 and 2013. This entry records his place in the American legal profession.

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was an American lawyer most widely known as a bridge player and poker authority
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    was an American lawyer most widely known as a bridge player and poker authority
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    the son of carpenter Armand
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    April 18, 1938
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    was an American lawyer most widely known as a bridge player and poker authority
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    practiced for the U.S. Department of Justice and later as a public defender in Washington, D.C.
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