Adam Parrish

Leveling Up

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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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Adam Parrish

Episodes

James Holzhauer 22.04.2025 33:57

James Holzhauer is a Diamond Life Master. In 2019 he won 32 consecutive games on Jeopardy and recorded the 12 highest single-game scores in the show's history. He has also starred as one of the resident trivia experts on the ABC show The Chase. He lives in Las Vegas.

Ribs LaMothe 15.04.2025 36:24

Ribs LaMothe is a retired training consultant, specializing in sales and communication skills. His background includes instructional design, focusing on helping people learn. He has also used his skills teaching the game of bridge in the Dallas, Texas area.

Larry Cohen 08.04.2025 39:40

Larry Cohen is a 25-time national champion, American Contract Bridge League Hall of Famer, former ACBL Player of the Year, and is one of the ACBL’s "Top 10 Living Most Influential Bridge Personalities."

Boye Brogeland 02.04.2025 38:01

Boye Brogeland is one of the top players in the world. And an awful lot of fun to talk to! For over 25 years he has been a mainstay on the Norwegian national team as they put up a string of impressive results, the highlight being the Bermuda Bowl championship in 2007 and the European championships in 2008, 2018, and 2024. I highly recommend his book, Bridge at the Edge . And, of course, he earned...

Amber Lin 25.03.2025 40:53

Amber Lin is the 2025 ACBL Honorary Member of the Year, a former Queen of Bridge, and co-coordinator of the USBF’s Online Junior Training Program. Amber won the gold medal in the Mixed Teams at the 2023 World Championships and the silver medal the year before. Her energy and enthusiasm for junior bridge have changed the lives of many young US players. Outside of bridge, she works full time in clea...

Charlie Wilkins 11.03.2025 33:24

Charlie Wilkins is a bridge enthusiast who retired in 2021 after a long career in commercial real estate. Since mid-2017, he has been collecting deals from actual play, where non-experts made technically correct bids and plays that gained lots of matchpoints. He calls these deals “Real World Bridge” to distinguish them from deals that occur in all-expert games, deals that require expert skills, an...

Fred Gitelman 04.03.2025 45:13

Fred Gitelman is best known as one of the creators of Bridge Base Online and its predecessor, Bridge Base Inc., which produced some of the best and most important educational software of the 90s. Fred retired from top-level tournament bridge in 2019, but during his heyday he and Brad Moss were one of the top pairs in the world, winning the 2010 Rosenblum world championship and several national tit...

Brian Platnick 25.02.2025 36:33

Brian Platnick, of Evanston, IL is a graduate of Virginia Tech (BS & MS in engineering) and William & Mary School of Law. He has worked for the past 30 years trading stock options. He is a founding member, and current President of The EDGAR Association. Brian served as a member of both the Ethical and Online Oversight Committees of the ACBL and has worked on numerous cheating investigat...