Both you and your friends need to be on the same server, there are 2 servers, the regular and the casual. If you want to play on the casual, tell your friends to click on casual and yu will see each other. Hope this helps Alisa
in BBO, I go to casual, I have a partner take us to a table, when I type the partner's name , it tells me that he is offline, but the partner is online. it is happening to me all the time. why.