jamegumb

Looked for something like this yesterday and failed to find it. Thank you!

Just wondering what players due to reach the "Royals" designation of J, Q, K, or A. I suppose I'm also interested in stars. Not at all doubting the qualifications of people with the rankings, just wondering what determines who gets them. Thanks.

Just curious - what additional efforts are underway? Completely understood that you've all been working your tails off to adjust to the new user load, but it's still slow and stalls at times. Thanks for your efforts.

Is there a place to view the last trick played?

Just did a robot IMPs match where I bid three slams; one was on a finesse that failed. One was scuttled by 3-0 trumps off-side. One was beaten because trumps were 0-4. The latter two make with any other trump split. Probably I'm only writing this because I'm frustrated, but robot matches have certainly put me on tilt before. What do you all do to get back to/keep yourselves on an even keel?

Fair enough. Thanks.

Appreciate the insight - what calculation did you do for the probability? My binomial calculator stops once the third variable (both options working) is introduced.

This (sample generating algorithm) also makes sense, but surely it couldn't be more than a handful of samples before the odds overwhelmingly favor playing for the drop. Unless I'm missing some tipoff the robot derived from the early play.

For sure. Also to be lauded is the number of times they've seen me make awful plays/bids without any derogatory comments. Apologies to the OP; have been there (stranded in silly contracts) with the robots.

Maybe this is what it was "thinking"? But, of course, this is total points, so all that matters is making the contract. Yes, this does allow the Robot to pick up 5-0 Hearts with East. So it's seemingly a pretty perfect 50% chance. Though playing low to the King allows for picking up all 3-2 splits, 4-1 onside, 5-0 onside, and 4-1 offside with the Jack dropping. Or 68.7+14.15+1.95+2.83 = 87.63% if I'm doing the math properly. (Actually a little less, because you risk a club ruff crossing to dummy for a finesse on the 4-1 or 5-0 onside splits.)

This was from a Robot Reward I just completed: All vul, Dealer South Link here: http://tinyurl.com/yyofjbk7 Robot (N) S AQ43 H AQT94 D 4 C K54 jamegumb (S) S 9 H K83 D AKQ C AQJT82 Bidding (opps silent): 1C / 1H / 3C / 3S / 4H / 4NT / 5C / 5NT / 6D / 7H / P Perhaps I should have figured out the Robot had the Club King and bid 7NT. But it's a reward race, so I'm giving myself maybe 1-2 seconds per bid. I'd think the Robot should in theory be the captain, as I've described my hand. Lead is the Diamond 8. Robot wins in dummy, crosses to the Spade Ace, and leads the Heart 9 from hand. Low (Heart 5) from East. And the Robot runs the 9! Thankfully, it works this time (East had J5 in the suit) and we quickly rack up 2210. But what calculation possibly makes this happen? Please to explain. Thanks!

This one from yesterday; I had: ♠AKxx ♥- ♦AQJx ♣AKQJx Bidding (RR Best Hand #8825 Board 23) went: ME / GIB 2C / 2D 3C / 3D 5D / 6D 6D went off 2 when GIB tabled a hand including not many points and a 4=4=2=3 distribution. I'm fully willing to admit my bidding was too much here (5D was awful; I was trying to make sure I didn't get passed out at 4 and was hoping he might have something in the suit...), but I'd still like GIB to return to the first bid suit when it's got more cards there and is taking a preference.

Thank you. Brilliant.

As a request, could we please get "autoplay singletons" as an option? Would save me from some of my hamfistedness. Thank you for doing all this.

Thanks; naturally, I agree with most of my bidding as well - though naturally not everything. There's not a whole lot of time to ponder here, so every once in a while you make a click you'd really like to have back. Usually about the time your electronic partner is returning with -800. It's also become increasingly apparent to me just how crucial both computer speed and network speed are toward playing a maximal amount of hands. I've gotten my three top scores (in the 16-18,000s) on my "A" setup - fast computer, fast network; unfortunately I've only played about 5% of my tourneys on that setup. Most have been played on the "B" setup - middling computer, middling network; there's also now the "C" setup of iPad and decent network. I generally get about 50-55 hands seen in the "A" setup, 35-45 on the "B" setup, and 30-35 on the iPad. If an additional hand is worth, say, 175 points, then my expected outcome on the fast setup should be over 2000 points higher than the slower setup. And that's for average matches; the difference may well be exacerbated at the extremes - my high score on the "B" setup is below 15,000. I recently got a 14,980 on the B set-up while seeing 37 hands (6 of those were passed out, so only 31 actually played); the pace was unlikely to continue but it's easy to extrapolate "what might have been" given a few more hands here. And the iPad setup is just for fun/convenience. BBO needs to allow autoplaying singletons there, for one thing. I don't know what computer set-ups others are generally using. But it's going to be difficult for anyone to reach 20,000 unless they're using something pretty speedy.