Jeff Rubens

Jeff Rubens (born 1941) is an American bridge player, editor, and writer of books including Secrets of Winning Bridge and Expert Bridge Simplified. He is best known for long association with The Bridge World monthly magazine, as co-editor under Edgar Kaplan from 1967

Life

Rubens attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City, where he was captain of the math team in 1957, the year he graduated.

Awards Precision Award (Best Article or Series on a System or Convention) 1977, 1979, 1982

Wins North American Bridge Championships (3) Spingold (1) 1972 Men's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1965 Men's Pairs (1) 1965 United States Bridge Championships (1) Open Team Trials (1) 1972

Publications

Win at Poker (Funk & Wagnalls, 1968); reprint Dover Publications, 1984, Modern Bridge Bidding Complete: introducing the Roth point count (Funk & Wagnalls, 1968), Al Roth and Rubens The Secrets of Winning Bridge (Grosset & Dunlap, 1969) Bridge for Beginners (Funk & Wagnalls, 1970), Al Roth and Rubens Official rules of the Tarotrump card game (U.S. Games Systems, 1972), Stuart R. Kaplan and Rubens – [rules?] "by Stuart R. Kaplan; suggestions for strategy by Jeff Rubens" Test Your Play as Declarer (NY: Hart Pub, 1977), Paul Lukacs and Rubens The Bridge World magazine: Swiss match challenge (Oakland: Lawrence & Leong Pub, 1992) "Edgar Kaplan Remembered", The Bridge World [monthly], December 1997 to April 1998 The Bridge World's Test your play (Master Point Press, 2001)