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. 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 also co-authored a book called More Breaking the Rules: Second Hand Play with Barry Rigal in 2013. [7]

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