Unfavorable layouts for NS

[bacca2002]

BBO, you gove me a headache wHen you give NS unfavorable layouts for overbidding slightly to a 68 percent contract. This started my hanid of cheating and better distribution can change that. Nonetheless, I am still an overbidder, and there is nothing you can do to change it. Perhaps this is why BBO people are conservative,and play in doomed 3NT when slam was cold. in other words:are you placing the enemy cards randomly?

[barmar]

BBO hands are dealt randomly, there is no NS or EW bias, and definitely nothing that tries to create bad layouts. The only non-random aspect is in best-hand robot tournaments: after dealing the hands normally they are rotated to move the hand with the most HCP into the South seat. It does NOT look at distribution when doing this, just 4-3-2-1 points.

 

And when you're sitting East or West, aren't NS the enemies? Or are you only talking about robot tourneys? Anyway, as I said above, except for the best-hand rotation, there's no difference between dealing for robot tourneys and dealing in the rest of BBO.

[JLOGIC]

Post of the year

[PhilKing]

Bacca, do your aces always get cracked when playing on Stars?

[Lord Molyb]

*mind blown*

[daveharty]

I suggest a new strategy...let the Wookie win.

[GreenMan]

BBO hands are dealt randomly, there is no NS or EW bias, and definitely nothing that tries to create bad layouts. The only non-random aspect is in best-hand robot tournaments: after dealing the hands normally they are rotated to move the hand with the most HCP into the South seat. It does NOT look at distribution when doing this, just 4-3-2-1 points.

 

Barry: Is this rotation random when two hands have the same HCP, e.g. the original N and W each have 12? I know it's a small thing, but if (say) the rotation is always clockwise, then a player might infer that RHO is more likely to also have 12 than LHO.

 

This isn't a big deal since the robot tournaments already have other artificial inferences available (if I have 12 neither opp will have 13; if I have 12 then our side likely doesn't have game even if CHO is max) so it's not exactly a blow to the purity of the events. :rolleyes: Just curious.

[barmar]

Barry: Is this rotation random when two hands have the same HCP, e.g. the original N and W each have 12? I know it's a small thing, but if (say) the rotation is always clockwise, then a player might infer that RHO is more likely to also have 12 than LHO.

It's not actually a rotation, it's a swap. If South doesn't initially have the best hand, his hand is swapped with the player that does. If there are two other seats with the best hand, it chooses which one to swap with randomly.