[nathan2008]

Vampyr, on 2012-April-02, 17:56, said:

Oh, I didn't realise. I was told in another thread that the ACBL games are much more popular, but not the reason.

You only see Leo Lasota opens 1nt with 5413 14HCP, but do u see how he plays? I still remember in a game, i played same hands as him. When i checked the boards, he found the play to block the suit which i failed. I was very impressed in that. please think more and then make comments. BBO is really the best software to play online bridge. All my friends stop playing other bridge softwares when they start playing on BBO.

[pigpenz]

nathan2008, on 2012-April-03, 10:45, said:

You only see Leo Lasota opens 1nt with 5413 14HCP, but do u see how he plays? I still remember in a game, i played same hands as him. When i checked the boards, he found the play to block the suit which i failed. I was very impressed in that. please think more and then make comments. BBO is really the best software to play online bridge. All my friends stop playing other bridge softwares when they start playing on BBO.

I think you see other people are tending to be a little more brave.....but he does play his cards better, he should he has a star by his name
Just as in the past people didnt like opening a NT with a 5 card major, now its done with out thinking....there are lot of hands where if you open 1NT the bots dont even get into the auction cost of the rigidity?(of their system over NT).

How many times have you been in 1NT when the hand belongs to the opponents, it turns out quite a bit.
One thing I have noticed it is almost never right to let the bots open 1NT and pass it out...it seems like
your almost always heading for -120....but lots of times if you can balance you can get out for less than -120.

[barmar]

Bbradley62, on 2012-April-03, 08:40, said:

That would also be difficult (though not impossible) to measure. I'm sure the size of ACBL games varies largely based on the time in the US... non-ACBL games run more frequently... non-ACBL games have fewer boards and are speedball, which might be contributing factors having nothing to do with ACBL masterpoints.

He was asking to compare with non-ACBL robot tourneys, not human tourneys, so there's no speedball/slowball difference. The only ones to compare with are the $0.25 BBO robot tourneys.

But we don't have apples-vs-apple comparisons. The BBO robot tourneys are only 8 boards, compared to 12 for ACBL tourneys.

My usual style is just to play in whatever type of tourney is starting soonest. But if different tourneys are starting within a couple of minutes of each other, I'll prefer the ACBL tourney: it's more boards, and it awards masterpoints. I don't care a lot about masterpoints, but if I'm going to play anyway I might as well try to get something out of it. And I prefer longer matches (I'll play an 18 board match if it starts soon).

Others may play in the non-ACBL games because they're only about $0.03 per board, compared with $0.08 for the ACBL games. But these games are all so inexpensive that the price difference has little effect on me.

The other reason to play in the non-ACBL games is there are some IMP games; everything else is matchpoints.

[MrAce]

Vampyr, on 2012-April-01, 16:13, said:

Now, these and similar issues may or may not be "bridge", but if they are, then number 3 is, unfortunately, cheating.
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LoL

You didnt really mean this, did you ?

[Vampyr]

MrAce, on 2012-April-12, 17:37, said:

LoL

You didnt really mean this, did you ?

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