Joshua Samuel Donn (born June 1, 1982 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is a multi national champion and a gold medal world junior champion in contract bridge. He is known as a bridge lecturer as well as author. He is the all-time leader of

Richard Pavlicek Richard Pavlicek (born 1945) is an American bridge player, teacher, and writer from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, United States. Career Pavlicek began to play bridge in 1964 at the age of 18 while stationed in Stuttgart, West Germany, with the US Arm ...

's monthly polls that ran from 2000-2006 and had thousands of participants from over 90 countries. He currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada with his daughter.

Publications

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

Bridge accomplishments

Awards

* Joan Gerard Youth Award, World Bridge Federation * Finalist, International Bridge Press Association "Yeh Bros. 2014 Best Bid Deal of the Year" for Josh Donn & Adam Kaplan in "Grand Bidding" by Sue Mundayhttp://bridge-tips.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IBPA-Handbook.pdf * Finalist, 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

Wins

* World Youth Bridge Team Championships 2006 * Roth Open Swiss Teams 2008 * Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs 2011 * Roth Open Swiss Teams 2016 * Roth Open Swiss Teams 2019

Runners-up

* NABC+ Mixed Swiss Teams 2016 * Grand National Teams 2016

External links

References

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