Adam Kaplan is a member of the USA1 Open team that recently won the USBF trials 4-handed and will be representing the US this summer in the Bermuda Bowl. He has won two U26 World Junior Teams Championships, and has numerous additional medals in Juniors. In open events, he won the 2025 Gold Coast Teams, as well as the 2023 Gold Coast Pairs, and the 2024 European Winter Games Final B. He also stars in the documentary Double Dummy.
He learned bridge at age 5 and played regularly throughout his teenage years while homeschooled before taking a 5-year hiatus from the game while finishing college at Stanford and starting to work. He returned to the game in Fall 2022, and now plays semi-professionally while maintaining an active career as a trader.
I’ve included the video here, or you can watch it on YouTube. You can also listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Some of the highlights:
His maturation as a bridge player (10:00)
How thinking like the robots helps his game (16:00)
Post-tournament review (17:20)
A big board from the finals (22:30)
Adam’s tournament routine (29:30)
What makes a “winning player” (34:40)
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