Joshua Donn

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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 [1] [2] [3] as well as author. Donn is an American Contract Bridge League Grand Life Master. 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]

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Donn authored a popular online column called "Breakin' the Rules" from 2011 to 2015. [6] He co-authored a book called More Breaking the Rules: Second Hand Play with Barry Rigal in 2013. [7] . He also has moderated and written a column in the ACBL Bridge Bulletin called "The Bidding Box" since 2021. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 89, July 25, 2017
  2. ↑ "Bridge Base Online". www.facebook.com.
  3. ↑ "Slam Bidding by Joshua Donn - Youth World Bridge". youth.worldbridge.org. 9 November 2017.
  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. Palenville, New York: HNB Publishing. ISBN   978-0982887431. OCLC   1043829894.
  8. ↑ "Josh Donn Bridge Winners profile". Bridge Winners. 11 May 2024.
  9. ↑ "Joan Gerard Youth Awards | World Bridge Federation".
  10. 1 2 http://bridge-tips.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IBPA-Handbook.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  11. ↑ "11th World Youth Bridge Team Championships".
  12. ↑ https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.acbl.org/nabc/2008/02/bulletins/db11.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. ↑ https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.acbl.org/nabc/2011/03/bulletins/db8.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. ↑ https://cdn.acbl.org/nabc/2016/02/bulletins/db11.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. ↑ https://cdn.acbl.org/nabc/2019/02/bulletins/db11.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. ↑ https://cdn.acbl.org/nabc/2016/03/bulletins/db11.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  17. ↑ https://cdn.acbl.org/nabc/2018/02/bulletins/db4.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. ↑ https://cdn.acbl.org/nabc/2024/03/bulletins/db1.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  19. ↑ "Josh Donn Bridge Winners profile". Bridge Winners. 11 May 2024.
  20. ↑ "Josh Donn Bridge Winners profile". Bridge Winners. 11 May 2024.
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