Background
Rubin learned to play bridge as a boy in the 1930s, from German-speaking refugees at Lake Placid, which he visited with his mother who was not a player.
Rubin learned to play bridge as a boy in the 1930s, from German-speaking refugees at Lake Placid, which he visited with his mother who was not a player.
Rubin attended the Bronx High School of Science and later New York University.
Rubin lived in Fair Lawn and resided in nearby Paramus for 35 years. At age nine, he and friends made up bidding conventions. He started to play tournament bridge when he was in high school, and in his thirties became a full-time player, which he was able to pursue because of his wife"s income from her occupation in speech pathology.
Known as "the Beast" for his intense style of playing, he invented several bidding systems in the game of bridge.
He is buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Fairview, Bergen County, New Jersey. Rubin was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2000.
Honors Wins Runners-up Bermuda Bowl (2) 1966, 1977 North American Bridge Championships von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (3) 1954, 1955, 1963 Wernher Open Pairs (1) 1955 Truscott Senior Swiss Teams (1) 2004 Vanderbilt (4) 1968, 1969, 1971, 1981 Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (2) 1976, 1980 Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1957 Reisinger (1) 1965 Spingold (2) 1957, 1969.