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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.
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- 1 weeks ago40 min
Morgan Sabourin
Meet 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 University of Minnesota, then continued her playing career at Georgia Tech, where she also earned a master’s in Civil Engineering. She’s been fortunate to travel internationally playing bridge and representing the USA in Italy in 2025 (U31) and the Netherlands in 2023 (Women’s U26).These days, Morgan specializes in short-form bridge content and teaches bridge to beginning and advancing players. She creates content with The Bridge World, Bridge Base Online, the ACBLEF, the ACBL, and more. She loves making bridge fun, accessible, and sharing her favorite game with new audiences.When she’s away from the bridge table, you’ll usually find her with a crossword puzzle, working on her next batch of content, or hanging out with her husband, David, and their dog, Darko.
- 3 weeks ago35 min
John Ramos
John 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 1992, he returned to NYC and pursued tournament bridge, being mentored by some of the best players the city had to offer. Following careers in options trading and film, the latter of which took him across the country to Los Angeles, in 2016 he transitioned to teaching and playing bridge full-time. Since he decided to make bridge his vocation, John has established himself as one of Los Angeles’s premier teachers, holding regular classes at both public and private clubs all over the city and building up a devoted client base. In addition, he’s a top tournament player, having placed in the top 5 in Open US National events on four occasions. He is also a partner in Bridge And Beyond, a bridge education and luxury travel company he formed with fellow pros Giorgia Botta and Christopher Rivera.
- Sep 22, 202631 min
Phil Clayton
Phil 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 at the world championships in Herning, DK. He is a member of the ACBL Advisory Council and the Online Ethical Oversight Committee. He is a good friend of mine and a frequent teammate.
- Sep 8, 202634 min
Marc Smith
Marc 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 point in the past 40+ years, most recently picking up the Premier Grand Masters Pairs title in 2025. However, it is as a bridge writer that he best known. Marc is the co-author, along with Barbara Seagram, of the best-selling bridge book since Culbertson, “25 Conventions You Should Know.” He collaborated with David Bird on two award-winning series of books: “Bridge Technique” and “Bridge Cardplay: An Easy Guide.” He has also co-written books with Jeff Meckstroth, Martin Hoffman, Julian Pottage, and Tim Bourke. Marc now has more than 50 titles to his name, including the “World Class” series and the “Enterprising Tales” books (bridge stories set in the “Star Trek” universe). These days, Marc conducts the world’s most popular bidding competition, hosted on the RealBridge website, and he also writes a regular cardplay column in the ACBL Bulletin. Marc also teaches numerous weekly online classes. For more details of both his classes and his books, visit Marc’s website at www.bridge-teacher.com.
- Aug 26, 202639 min
Rob Barrington
Rob 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 just his YouTube channel has over 6 million views! Based in South Florida Rob continues to teach, create content and travel the world for Bridge.
- Aug 11, 202637 min
John Kranyak
John 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. Allison Kranyak. Together they have a baby girl Lyla. In his spare time John enjoys golf, pickleball, running and hiking.John won his first national event in 2005 playing with his mom, Laurie. He was on the winning team in the 2001, 2005, and 2006 world youth team championships. His team won the 2024 world transnational teams and the 2021 Soloway.
- Jul 28, 202639 min
Maya Jonas-Silver
Maya 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 youngish working professionals. Since then, she's made Day 2 of a bunch of NABC+ events, captained a team to the Bronze Medal of the inaugural Bridge Brawl, and is just off a first place finish in GNT Bs at the Minneapolis NABC.
- Jul 7, 202638 min
Raj Shourie
Rajath 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 during Covid, learning online, and went to his first in-person duplicate at the Austin NABC in late 2021. Since then he has had a number of successful finishes, including wins in the world transnational teams in Argentina, the Soloway Knockout in San Francisco, and most recently the US Team Trials. He lives in Pacific Palisades, California, with his wife Moira, and their two sets of twin boys.
About Leveling Up
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.
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