Jim Harper

when a player wants to leave the game it is usually at the end of a hand. sometimes the next hand gets dealt and the bidding may have started before that player has finished her thank yous and goodbyes. what would be nice is an option whereby the player intending to leave checks the option during the play of the hand and the system does not deal the next hand until they leave or they uncheck the option and remain at the table.

there are two reasons to go to a table. to kibitz or to play. you should be able to tell the system what you want before you go to the table. if it drops you into the table as a kibitzer and you really wanted to take an empty seat you will have seen the hands if the cards have already been dealt. if the cards have been dealt the table host should be notified that someone wants to sit and they can assign them a seat or let the system drop that player into the first available seat at the table.

i have several nics on my enemies list. many of them are tournament directors and most of those are acbl directors. i also have checked "ignore chat from enemies." i use the enemies list to keep my copy of the chat bar as uncluttered as possbile. i find all those advertisements by acbl directors to be unnecessary and frankly unwelcome. there are few players who have earned their place in my hall of shame on my enemies list. most are only there for a short sojourn, usually a few days, until they decide to stop sending me messages. i update the player notes for any player who makes an out of the ordinary bid, makes nasty comments to players at the table, quits in the middle of a hand, is nice, pleasant, friendly etc. i check to see if there are notes for any of the players at the table i am seated at. i date the notes as well and purge old negative notes if there have been no newer incidences. perhaps when a player sends a message to someone and it is blocked becasue that player is on their enemies list, the system should return a message and inform the sendor that their message was not received.

micky, there are no player names displayed on the play bridge window therefore i could not have inadvertently clicked on that player's name. i did not read about the help me find a table button not working for a few days but that would explain why it didn't work for me. why do you assume that i do not know when i click on a player name? in effect you are denying that i have experienced a problem. ===================================

bug report 4.2.4 navigate to main bridge club click on view button uncheck show full tables check show empty seats select countries show only France click on apply click on close table list at first showed one table hosted by a french player new tables added to the display list did not have french host or french players french player signed off and his table closed now tables displayed have no french host or players but they do have empty seats ==================================

in the main bridge club click on View button click on adjust settings select World Class at the time i did this all but two tables disappeared from the table list. neither of these tables had players who were self-rated as world class. ========================================== reset the above settings to all levels selected navigate to Play Bridge click on Help me find a table button indicates it is clicked but nothing happens ========================================= while i was writing this message i went back to bbo still on the Play Bridge screen there was a system message to me saying pinochio has logged off and do i want to send him a message and a chat message was opened. i have no idea who pinochio is and there are no player names dispalyed on the Play Bridge screen. i do not normally receive logon or logoff messages. pinochio is not on my friends list nor is he on my enemies list. =========================================