How a cheating scandal brought down the Michael Jordan of bridge

Lotan Fisher was a star at tables across the world. A new documentary explores how one of his rivals started an online detective case into his methods

Israel's Lotan Fisher was once considered the greatest bridge player in the world, the card game's very own Michael Jordan. Yet in 2015 he became the focus of a cheating scandal that resulted in bans imposed by numerous bridge bodies. The story is the subject of a new documentary, Dirty Tricks, that gives a rare look into the exclusive world of elite-level competitive bridge.

For me, it just sounded so quirky and strange to make a film about a bridge scandal," the documentary's director, Daniel Sivan, tells the Guardian over Zoom. It's not a cool sport, not a spectator sport."