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You should definitely swap with the human, as otherwise the human with <10hcp has knowledge about their partners hand. The swapping idea is indeed much better than rotating. I hope it will be implemented!

Dear BBO community, I have a suggestion for an alternative for the "best hand" setting. Instead of rotating the hand to obtain the best hand, you could rotate until you have a hand with >= 10 HCP. In this way, you do not have information about the other hands, and e.g. your partner is still unlimited. This "good hand" setting still guarantees a lot of action, but it does not make the game unnatural because of all the extra information.

I am a frequent player on the BBO platform and I really enjoy the setup. However, one aspect that puzzled me over the years is the "best hand" setting, which is e.g. used in the daily tournaments. I can see the reason for the option, but the downside of it is that it gives so much additional information, in particular if you have a hand with just above 10 hcp. I feel an attractive alternative could be to have a "good hand" setting, in which you (randomly) deal the cards and then rotate them clockwise (or whatever you like 😉) until the player has 10 or more hcp. In this way you make sure that the player has a card with some action, but there is no information on the distribution of the other hcp. I can imagine that it would be difficult to shift to such a new setting, as the BBO community is used to the old one, but I thought it would be nice to share the idea anyway.

Yesterday, the daily free tournament had this as hand 6: [hv=pc=n&s=skj3h84dkj853ca96&w=sa4hakt97d2cqt872&n=sq86hj652dat64ck4&e=st9752hq3dq97cj53&d=e&v=e&b=6&a=p1d2n3cp3dpp]399|300[/hv] I was surprised to see this layout, as this is a best hand tournament and West seems to have more HCP than South.