Hopkins earns bronze award from the Cribbage Congress
CRIBBAGE CLUB
by Emma DiMaggio
Communications Manager
After amassing over 1,000 points in the game of cribbage, Mutual 16 resident Hoppy Hopkins has earned a Bronze Award from the American Cribbage Congress (ACC) Grass Roots, complete with a jacket to mark the occasion.
ACC Grass Roots is a nonprofit organization with over 200 local clubs in North America. Local clubs play regularly and tally their points, marking a champion each season.
The Bronze Award is given to only a small fraction of players. It takes years of dedicated game play to reach the milestone of 1,000 ACC Grass Roots-recorded points, which only account for highlevel games.
For Hopkins, these points may as well be a drop in the bucket. He’s played thousands of games of cribbage in his lifetime, learning the ropes when he was very young. He recalls besting adult players in Wisconsin, where his father first taught him to play.
In adulthood, Hopkins, a retired police officer, traveled the country to compete in cribbage tournaments. He’s only seen about two dozen bronze star jackets in his life, he said, a testament to his hard-earned bragging rights.
Hopkins plays multiple games a week with the LW Cribbage Club. He also plays with the local Huntington Beach ACC club, the Surf City 29ers, which he’s been a member of since 2013.
Hoppy Hopkins
Paul Kryczko
