Honors

Bridge and Games Center

By Instructor: Online Bridge Classes

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Alene Friedman

For intermediate players

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Email alenefriedman@gmail.com
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Jeff Badler

For beginner and advanced beginner players

Jeff had a 40 year career running a fine jewelry company on Park Ave. A client introduced him to bridge and he learned at our Club and developed a passion for the game.

Honors gave him the opportunity to teach newcomers. Jeff’s goal has always been to share his love and enthusiasm for bridge.  At the beginning of the pandemic, he quickly adapted to teaching online and strived to perfect this method. His students love the classes and he noticed they became players more quickly.

He’s invested hundreds of hours to create notes, clear and concise explanations of hands and recordings.
Jeff’s specialty is teaching absolute beginner through advanced beginner students.  He has seemingly unlimited patience and is well liked by his students.  His very popular class, The Whole Megillah (The Whole Story) has been running continuously for over 3 years. The reviews of his classes tell the story.

Jeff teaches all of the Beginner Series, as well as the Just Beyond Beginner Bridge series.

Jeff coordinates newcomers to our Beginner program.  He may be reached at jeff@badlerbridge.com or by texting 917-816-6969.


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Jeff Bayone

For advanced beginner through intermediate players

Jeff Bayone has owned and operated bridge clubs continuously in New York City since 1976. He serves on the ABTA’s Book of the Year Committee and on two Advisory Council committees, the Teacher and Club Manager Committee, chaired by Steve Moese, and the recently formed Bridge Committee.

Jeff’s award winning 2018’s ABTA Introductory Book of the Year, A Taste of Bridge (Master Point Press) is the result of 40 years teaching and watching others teach bridge to absolute beginning players. It is the first book in many years that speaks to the need to have new methods of introducing people to our game.

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Email jeffbayone65@gmail.com
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Jeff Hand

For advanced beginner players

Jeff began playing bridge in junior high school. His college results included one National Championship along with one 3rd and 4th place finish.  After college he moved to Panama to manage the Panama bridge club, publish the Central American and Caribbean Bridge Federation’s  annual magazine and represent Panama internationally for several years.He moved back to the USA in 1999 and began teaching and playing bridge at Honors, one of the country’s leading bridge clubs. He frequently is a guest speaker at many of our National Tournaments and has attainined the highest bridge rank possible, that of ACBL Grand Life Master. He and Gail Greenberg, have been teaching bridge on luxury bridge trips since 2007 (bridgesprees.com).  

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Email hand_jeff@hotmail.com
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Jess Jurkovic

For intermediate players


Jess Jurkovic is a Gold Life Master with nearly 20 years of tournament experience and over 10 years of teaching experience. He has experienve teaching all levels of players from beginner to strong advancing players. Jess has been on the staff of three of NYC’s major bridge clubs,  The Manhattan Bridge Club, Honors Bridge Club, and most recently Bridge & Games. His online and in-person JESSONS are filled with clarity, logic, and humor, a combination that helps guide players to understand this great game.

Besides various Sectional, and Regional victories, his National results include high overall finishes in the 2011 IMP Pairs, and the 2018 0-10,000 Pairs.

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Joe Byrnes

For intermediate players

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Email bridgeprojoe@gmail.com
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Marla Lawson

For advanced beginner/low-intermediate players

Marla (Sincavage) Lawson has been playing competitive bridge for almost 15 years, and is a Life Master. She has been teaching beginner and advanced beginner / intermediate students for 3 years, and has earned both the ACBL Best Practices Teacher Certification and the ACBL Online Teacher Certification. She enjoys competing at Regional and National tournaments, and she and her bridge partner placed second in the District North American Pairs competition in 2022, going on to represent the District in the Spring Nationals in Reno. Marla loves playing bridge, and says the main goal is to have fun. Her underlying philosophy is, ‘At the end of the day, it’s a card game…’ 

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Email marla3notrump@gmail.com
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Shlomit Rind

For advanced beginner and low-intermediate players

Shlomit’s professional background is physical therapy. She dedicated much of her professional career to helping patients recover by exercising their body. Now, as a full time bridge teacher, Shlomit feels that it is just as important to exercise the mind. 

While teaching the beginner bridge series, Shlomit saw the need for students who completed the beginner series to have an opportunity to put into practice all that they have learned. She developed a new series called P.A.T.—Putting It All Together. You play hands that randomly cover all the techniques and conventions you learned in all of the beginner courses. Spanning from bidding with and without competition, declarer play and defense. When the class was first announced at the Club, it was an instant hit. Now Shlomit teaches advanced beginner and low-intermediate courses.

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Shlomit’s class is currently offered in person.

Putting it all together
Yefim Shoykhet

For intermediate players

Yefim is certified bridge teacher and bridge director for more than 20 years.  Diamond life master with top regional tournaments results .

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