Sami Kehela is a Canadian contract bridge

Contract bridge

Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

 player. A member of the Hall of Fame of both the American Contract Bridge League and of the Canadian Bridge Federation, he is considered, along with his partner Eric Murray

Eric Murray (bridge)

Eric Murray is a Canadian contract bridge player and co-founder of the Canadian Bridge Federation . Along with his partner Sami Kehela, Murray is considered one of the top Canadians ever to have played the game. The Eric R...

, one of the top Canadians ever to have played the game.

Between 1966 and 1974, Kehela and Murray placed second in three Bermuda Bowls. Unique among world players, they also represented their country as a partnership in every one of the first six World Team Olympiads, from Turin in 1960 to Valkenburg in 1980. Together they won the Life Master Men’s Pairs, the Life Master Pairs, the Vanderbilt, and the Spingold Trophy three times. Kehela and Murray were also runners-up in the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL)'s 1969 Blue Ribbon Pairs.

Kehela lives with his wife in Toronto.

See also

• Edgar Kaplan
  Edgar Kaplan
  Edgar Kaplan was an American bridge player and one of the principal contributors to the game. His career spanned six decades and covered every aspect of bridge. He was a teacher, author, editor, administrator, champion player, theorist, expert Vugraph commentator, coach/captain and authority on...
  
   comments on the Kehela-Murray partnership in an interview with Audrey Grant
  Audrey Grant
  Audrey Grant is a Canadian professional educator and contract bridge expert, known for her "simple and humorous" approach to teaching bridge....