Internet Bridge Tutoring

Hongbo L.

I have played contract bridge for more than ten years and am an ACBL-certified tournament director and Bronze Life Master. In 2026, I was a member of the winning team in the NABC 0–10,000 Swiss Teams, a national championship event (https://cdn.acbl.org/nabc/2026/01/bulletins/db4.pdf). My experience includes club games, regional tournaments, North American Bridge Championships, matchpoint pairs, IMP pairs, Swiss teams, and knockout teams. I can tutor bidding, declarer play, defense, partnership agreements, duplicate strategy, and tournament preparation.

I hold a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, an M.D. from Peking Union Medical College, and a bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University. My scientific training helps me explain complicated bridge decisions in a logical and structured way. I also have several years of teaching experience at Johns Hopkins, where I taught programming courses and assisted with courses involving probability and stochastic processes. I have worked with college students, graduate students, and adult learners in classroom settings, small groups, and individual office-hour sessions.

My bridge lessons are adapted to each student’s experience and goals. For newer players, I emphasize fundamental bidding, hand evaluation, planning, and communication with a partner. For club and tournament players, I use bidding quizzes, annotated deals, card-by-card analysis, and discussion of recurring mistakes. I aim to explain not only which action is best, but also why it works and how the student can recognize similar situations independently in future games.