Sebastian Atisen (previously Kristensen) is a Dane who has been living in London for the past 25 years. He moved from Denmark to London to play rubber bridge and was hosting at various rubber bridge clubs in London for many years.
While continuing to play bridge, he had a non-bridge job for a while, from which he is now retired and is back to playing bridge full time again.
Kevin Castner hails from the San Francisco area, but is delighted now to call both the UK and Germany his part time homes (since he doesn’t have one anymore). After over 30 years at a boring desk job, he restarted playing tournament bridge at the Summer Congress in Brighton in 2014 and has enjoyed middling success, and failure, since then. Kevin has never represented any country (at anything, if we’re honest) and his chances (thanks a little to the EBL/WBF) aren’t improving.
He enjoys hiking, biking, tennis and creating custom treasure hunts (London, Paris, San Francisco).
He is happily married to Anja, who happily doesn’t play bridge at all. He has two children and two granddaughters back in the USofA. None of them play bridge, and all of them think he’s nuts for spending so much time doing so, though they don’t seem to begrudge the fact that he’s frittering away their inheritances.
Ben Green was extremely successful as a junior player, repeatedly representing England in international events. Ben has won the Spring Foursomes (2012), Gold Cup (2015) and represented England in the 2022 European Championships (as well as a couple of Camrose appearances).
Ben was the Coach of the England Open Team that came fourth at the 2012 European Championships and third in the 2014 European Championships (later upgraded to a silver medal following the disqualification of the winning Israeli team), and was coach for the team when they competed in the 2013 Bermuda Bowl.
After taking a break from top level bridge for the last two years Ben has recently formed a partnership with Seb Atisen and hopes to be back playing internationally soon.
Phil King lives in Harrow-on-the-Hill with his wife Su. He is a full time bridge player and coach and has won all the major domestic competitions, including four Gold Cups. Successes further from home include a Silver medal in the 2016 Winter Games and a Bronze in the 2018 Champions Cup. As well as being coach to three Gold medal winning bridge teams, Phil is patiently waiting for the WBF to hand over the Gold medal for the 2008 Olympiad, where he was captain of the current Open Silver medalists.
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