Larry Cohen

Order of Operations

Planning your play in the right order so that you can take all your chances.

• 3/20/2026
• Level: Beginner

Fair and Unfair

Why Matchpoint bridge is the fairest game, but makes you make unfair decisions.

• 9/22/2025
• Level: General Interest

Watch out for the Raccoons

Make sure you are doing things in the right order and be careful of hidden obstacles.

• 2/12/2025
• Level: Beginner

Taking Advantage of the Lead

Are you taking full advantage of the opening lead?

• 1/21/2025
• Level: Beginner

Improving Your Odds

How can you improve your odds on this deal?

• 12/16/2024
• Level: Intermediate

Bringing Up Baby

Sleep=deprived Michael makes a plan

• 4/4/2024
• Level: General Interest

Fitting our Eyes

• 3/12/2024
• Level: General Interest

Another Way to Look at it

• 2/12/2024
• Level: Beginner

Saying too Much

• 1/5/2024
• Level: General Interest

Bad Splits

• 9/16/2023
• Level: General Interest

Always On

• 6/26/2023
• Level: General Interest

Research

• 5/25/2023
• Level: Beginner

How to Use Dummy

• 3/8/2023
• Level: All Levels

Finding the Extra Tricks

• 1/16/2023
• Level: Intermediate

Go Slower

• 11/8/2022
• Level: General Interest

About Matchpoints

• 11/7/2022
• Level: General Interest

Four Against One

• 10/4/2022
• Level: General Interest

Don't Throw Your Golf Clubs

• 8/4/2022
• Level: All Levels

Pushing the Snowball up the Mountain

• 3/24/2022
• Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Wait For It

• 11/5/2021
• Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Shortcut to Success

• 12/9/2020
• Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Looking Silly

• 12/7/2020
• Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Loser on Loser plays

• 9/27/2020
• Level: General Interest

Bridge or Poker?

• 8/24/2020
• Level: Intermediate

Making Life Unfair

• 4/7/2020
• Level: Intermediate

Bridge isn't Fair

• 4/7/2020
• Level: Intermediate

The Importance of Not Telling the Truth

• 2/7/2020
• Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Recognizing Our Mistakes

• 10/16/2019
• Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Facing Your Fears

• 10/7/2019
• Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Learning to Love 1NT

• 9/4/2019
• Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Moysian Fits

• 9/3/2019
• Level: Intermediate

Finding the Elegant Play

• 8/24/2019
• Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Greed is Good

• 7/11/2019
• Level: Beginner to Intermediate

A Friend on Lead

• 6/2/2019
• Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Remembering the Auction

• 5/17/2019
• Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Breaking up Communication

• 4/7/2019
• Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Declarer Play at Notrump

• 2/8/2019
• Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Back to the Basics

• 1/28/2019
• Level: Intermediate

Introduction to Counting as Declarer

• 4/11/2017
• Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Counting

• 3/28/2017
• Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Declarer Play - Avoiding Finesses

• 2/22/2017
• Level: Intermediate

How to guess KJ opposite xx

• 4/5/2016
• Level: Intermediate

Notrump Planning (Video)

• 3/1/2016
• Level: Intermediate

Suit Combination Video -- AJx opposite 9x

• 2/1/2016
• Level: Intermediate

What are the Odds?

• 11/1/2015
• Level: Intermediate

Notrump Play Overview

• 9/29/2015
• Level: Intermediate

Capturing the Queen

• 4/1/2015
• Level: Intermediate

Suit Play Overview

• 1/27/2015
• Level: Intermediate

Trick One

• 9/1/2014
• Level: Intermediate

Suit Combinations

• 1/1/2014
• Level: Intermediate

How to Play 3NT

• 3/1/2012
• Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Is This Really A Suit Combination?

• 8/19/2009
• Level: All Levels

Familiar Theme, Different Setting

• 8/16/2009
• Level: Intermediate

A Most Difficult Ending

• 6/17/2009
• Level: Advanced

Percentages or logic?

• 1/7/2009
• Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Don't Fight the Computer

• 6/5/2008
• Level: Advanced

Zia crisscross

• 2/3/2008
• Level: Advanced

David's Well-Laid Plan

• 12/7/2007
• Level: Intermediate

A Discovery Play

• 12/5/2007
• Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Charlotte Declarer Hands

• 10/9/2007
• Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Thinking it Through

• 5/10/2007
• Level: Intermediate

Jack Detection

• 5/7/2007
• Level: Intermediate

Well Earned IMPs, version 2

• 1/1/2007
• Level: Advanced

Restricted Choice

• 4/5/2005
• Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Trick-1 Thinking

• 2/5/2002
• Level: Advanced

Berkowitz makes 7C (2001) (printed from WBF Bulletin/Paris Nov 2001 -- IPBA)

• 1/1/2002
• Level: Advanced

From Maastricht

• 12/19/2000
• Level: Intermediate

The title would give it away!

• 12/5/2000
• Level: Intermediate

Local Column 1

• 1/1/1999
• Level: Intermediate