Palo Alto Bridge / Celebrity Bridge Seminar with Amber Lin

How to “Think Like an Expert at Trick 1”
Amber Lin Webinar
Saturday, January 18, 2025, 9:30-11:00am on Zoom

Amber will review example hands as a declarer and explain her thought process at trick 1 – what line-of-play to take, how to take more tricks by reading your opponent’s lead, simple probability, and table psychology.  

This lesson will benefit all levels of players, especially Newcomers and Intermediate players

Details:

  • Saturday, January 18, 2025, 9:30-11am PST on Zoom
  • Price: $25.  Students: Free! – email  unit503.seminars@gmail.com to sign up
  • Registration and Payment Link
  • Webinar link will be provided to registrants 24 hours and 1 hour prior to the webinar.
  • You will have access to the recordings and any extra materials if you are unable to attend the class.

Questions?  Contact unit503.seminars@gmail.com

 World and National Champion
 Team USA Member – Women’s, Mixed, Juniors
 “It’s Your Call” Bridge Bulletin Contributor

Amber Lin is a young professional player and teacher who lives here in the Bay Area. She was recently awarded the ACBL’s 2025 Honorary Member recognizing her huge contributions to the membership.  She won a gold medal in the World Mixed Teams Championships in 2023 and a silver medal in 2022, she won the Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match Teams in 2022 and won the European Under-31 Pairs Championships in 2023.

Amber is passionate about introducing young people to the game and is the chair of Silicon Valley Youth Bridge (SiVY) providing regular instruction at the Palo Alto Bridge Center for young, new players.  She is also the co-organizer of the USBF Junior Training Program and runs the U26 Women’s Intensive program with Kevin Rosenberg.

Amber grew up in New Jersey and learned bridge from her dad, who took her to her first tournament at age 11. When she was in high school, she started teaching new kids at her local Chinese School with her dad. These efforts gained her recognition as the 2015 ACBL Queen of Bridge, an annual scholarship for a high school senior. After graduating from Princeton in 2019, she moved to San Francisco for work and joined the Bay Area bridge community, through which she met her regular partner and significant other, Kevin Rosenberg.

Amber is also an amateur musician. She is a classically-trained pianist and vocalist who has music directed many college theater opera and musical theatre productions. She also enjoys performing pop-rock songs with her company band.

See Amber’s interview with a popular bridge podcast, the Setting Trick, here.