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Robert J. (Bobby) Levin (born November 19, 1957) is an American professional bridge player. He is best known as the youngest winner of the world championship for national teams, namely the 1981 Bermuda Bowl, and as five-time winner of the Cavendish Invitational with his regular partner Steve Weinstein. As of May 2011, Bobby Levin ranks number 14 among Open World Grand Masters and his wife Jill ranks number 14 among Women World Grand Masters.
Levin–Weinstein are one-third of a team that will represent the US in the 2011 Bermuda Bowl (October). Beginning 2012 they will play for Nick Nickell, whose professional teams have won four of the eight biennial Bermuda Bowls since 1995.
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Levin was born in Southampton, Long Island, New York. As a 13-year-old, he won the first tournament event he ever entered – the Men’s Pairs at a New York sectional – making him the youngest winner in the history of the event.
When Levin was 15, the family moved to Miami. In March 1973, not long after arriving in Florida, Levin became the youngest Life Master in the history of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) at the age of 15 years and 4 months old. This record has since been broken. Once in Miami, Levin met two players – Billy Seamon and Russell Arnold – who had a profound influence on his bridge career. By the age of 17, Levin was playing professionally on teams with Arnold, sponsored by Bud Reinhold.
In 1979, his team (Reinhold, Arnold, Jeff Meckstroth and Eric Rodwell) tied for first in the Reisinger Board-a-Match Teams. Since the Reisinger was a qualifying event for the team trials to determine ACBL’s representative for the world championships, a playoff was necessary. The team lost the playoff in the wee hours of the morning to Ira Corn's Dallas Aces (Ira Rubin, Fred Hamilton, Bob Hamman and Bobby Wolff).
The following spring Reinhold team won the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams in Fresno, California, qualifying for the team trials. The squad easily won the right later that year to represent the United States in the 1981 Bermuda Bowl in Port Chester, New York. The team added John Solodar and defeated Zia Mahmood-led Pakistan for the championship. The win made Levin, at 23 years old, the youngest world champion at the time.
About a year later, Levin moved to Chicago to work as an options trader. When the market crashed in 1987, Levin was back to Florida, entering the real estate business with one of his brothers. He moved to the Orlando area in 1988 and lived there for twelve years.
His regular partner is Steve Weinstein, who is also a world class poker player. When forming their partnership, they spent a week with Marty Bergen in Florida to put together their system.
Levin and his wife of twelve years, Jill, who is also a world champion bridge player, reside in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania.
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