Joshua Donn

Joshua Samuel Donn (born June 1, 1982 in Knoxville, TN) is a multi national champion and a gold medal world junior champion in contract bridge. He is known as a bridge lecturer[1][2][3] as well as author. He is the all-time leader of Richard Pavlicek's monthly polls that ran from 2000-2006 and had thousands of participants from over 90 countries.[4] He currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada with his daughter.[5]

Publications

Donn authored a poular online column called "Breakin' the Rules" from 2011 to 2015.[6] He also co-authored a book called More Breaking the Rules: Second Hand Play with Barry Rigal in 2013.[7]

Bridge accomplishments

Awards

Wins

Runners-up

  • International Bridge Press Association[8] "Yeh Bros. 2014 Best Bid Deal of the Year" for Josh Donn & Adam Kaplan in "Grand Bidding" by Sue Munday[9]
  • International Bridge Press Association "2014 Master Point Press Book of the Year" for More Breaking the Rules - Second-Hand Play by Barry Rigal and Josh Donn[9]
  • NABC+ Mixed Swiss Teams (1) 2016[10]
  • "International record for Joshua Donn". World Bridge Federation.

References

  1. Daily Bulletin (PDF), 89 (5, page 2), July 25, 2017
  2. "Bridge Base Online". www.facebook.com.
  3. "Slam Bidding by Joshua Donn - Youth World Bridge". youth.worldbridge.org.
  4. "2000-2006 Bidding Polls". www.rpbridge.net.
  5. "Joshua Donn Bridge Winners profile". Bridge Winners.
  6. "In the Well: Josh Donn". Bridge Winners. 25 February 2013.
  7. Rigal, Barry; Donn, Josh (November 15, 2013). More Breaking the Rules: Second Hand Play. HNB Publishing. ISBN 978-0982887431.
  8. "Home". www.ibpa.com.
  9. 1 2 http://bridge-tips.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IBPA-Handbook.pdf
  10. "ACBL". web3.acbl.org.
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