About this podcast
Adam Parrish is exploring how one gets better at bridge and advances to the next level—be that from intermediate to advanced or expert to world class. Adam is an expert player himself—a national champion and a Master Teacher—but he's looking to get to the next level, and devoting the year to figuring out what that takes. Adam will be talking to world-class bridge players about how they got to where they are and what they do to maintain and hone their game. He'll also talk to non-expert bridge players about how they work to get better, and to experts in fields outside of bridge.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 58 episodes
- Morgan Sabourin · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 58Meet Morgan Sabourin, but you may know her better as BridgeBabe530! She’s a bridge player, accredited teacher, and bridge content creator. She learned the game in 2017 at the…
- John Ramos · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 57John Ramos was born and raised in New York City. He learned the rules of bridge at a very young age from his father and grandmother. After graduating from Princeton University in…
- Phil Clayton · 32 min · Season 2 Episode 56Phil Clayton became a Life Master at age 22 and is currently an Emerald Life Master. He is a USBF junior mentor and coach and was the Non-Playing Captain of the USA2 Seniors team…
- Marc Smith · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 54Marc Smith was a member of the Great Britain team that won the Junior Teams at the European Union Championships in 1985. Marc has won most of England’s national events at some…
- Rob Barrington · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 55Rob Barrington is a professional player, teacher, and one of the more recognizable personalities in the modern bridge world. His online content reaches a global audience where…
- John Kranyak · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 53John Kranyak is a professional bridge player and world champion originally from Cleveland, Ohio, currently living in Tucson, Arizona. He is married to fellow bridge player, Dr…
- Maya Jonas-Silver · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 52Maya attended her first NABC in 2022, and the next year took 2nd place in GNT Cs, won the 20-50 Mini-McKenney, and started teaching beginners with a novel strategy aimed at…
- Raj Shourie · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 51Rajath Shourie was introduced to bridge as a child by his family, but didn't really play until he had retired from his career in distressed debt investing. He took up the game…
- Danny Miles · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 50The year is 1990. A teenage Danny Miles is introduced to bridge by his grandmother, Frances — proving once again that grandmothers are the game’s most effective recruiters. The…
- Bill Bailey · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 48Bill Bailey has an unusual bridge history. He discovered bridge in book form in his early 20s. He’d heard it was the “chess of card games” and so decided to buy an Intro to…
- Owen Lien · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 47Owen Lien grew up in Hickory, NC, and now live in Oak Park, MI. He started playing bridge at 9 and now has over 20,000 masterpoints. He was a member of the US Junior Bridge Team…
- Kai Eckert · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 46Kai Eckert learned Bridge in July 2018 after his grandmother refused to teach him. He learned on vacation to surprise her, and then Bridge turned into being a little bit a lot…
- David Gold · 49 min · Season 2 Episode 42David Gold started as a top junior chess player before her learned bridge at school around age 16. David has been a fixture on England’s open team since 2004, winning a silver…
- Josh Donn · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 45Josh Donn (or Jdonn, as he is commonly known in the world of bridge) is a professional bridge player, teacher, and writer. He was a member of the winning US junior team at the…
- Adam Wildavsky · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 44Adam Wildavsky is a retired software engineer and lifelong bridge enthusiast. An MIT graduate, he is an avid skier, swimmer, and Lindy Hop dancer. A student of Objectivism—the…
- Frances Hinden · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 41Frances Hinden started playing bridge seriously at Cambridge University, where she won the Portland Bowl, the Junior Camrose, and gained a silver medal in the first European…
- Joyjit Sensarma · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 41Joyjit Sensarma is a coach to many high-level partnerships. He was the coach of the USA Seniors teams that won the world championship in 2024 and finished third in 2025. He has…
- Gonzolo Goded · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 40Gonzolo Goded started playing on Spain’s junior team in 1996 and joined the open team in 2008. He studied computer science and worked as a programmer before he became a full-time…
- Sjoert Brink · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 39Sjoert Brink is one of the top players in the world. Together with his partner Bas Drijver, he has won the Bermuda Bowl three times—once for the Netherlands (2011) and twice for…
