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About Larry Cohen (bridge)
- Larry Neil Cohen (born April 14, 1959) is an American bridge player, writer and teacher.
- He is best known as an advocate for the "Law of Total Tricks" as a guide in the bidding.
- He has won 25 North American Bridge Championships (NABC) events including the Vanderbilt, two Spingolds, two Reisingers, three Life Master Pairs, and four Blue Ribbon Pairs, and he is a two-time winner of the Cavendish Invitational Pairs cash prize tournament. Cohen's most important work on "the Law" was To Bid or Not to Bid: The LAW of Total Tricks, published in 1992.
- It was the best-selling bridge book of the 1990s with more than 90,000 copies sold in six different languages and its sequel Following the Law was another bridge best seller.
- He is known for long-term expert partnerships with Marty Bergen, Ron Gerard, and David Berkowitz, but announced his retirement from high-level competition in 2009 to devote more time to writing and teaching the game.
- However, he has, on occasion, played in high-level competition thereafter. Cohen was born in New York City.
- He learned to play bridge at age six with his grandparents and brother Paul Cohen, started playing duplicate at age 14, and began playing in tournaments at age 15.
- He became an American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Life Master at age 17. He now makes a living as a bridge teacher, often on cruise ships and as a guest speaker/teacher at country clubs and bridge clubs across the United States and around the world.
- He writes a monthly column, The Real Deal, in the ACBL Bridge Bulletin.
- An extensive list of bridge articles and information can be found on his website and in his regular newsletters.
- He currently resides with his wife, Maria Eugenia, in Delray Beach, Florida.
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