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I would like to have a control that I can enable when creating a casual table that would attempt to somewhat even out the high card points dealt to each team over a the entire table session. One way to accomplish it is this:
- keep track of the cumulative total high card points dealt to each team.
- at each deal, before giving the cards to the players, see which team is going to get the higher number of high card points on the new hand. If the team with the higher cumulative high card points would also get the better deal on this next hand, then rotate the hands so that the other team (lower cumulative points team) gets the better cards on the new hand.
Of course there are other ways to try to prevent a lopsided distribution of points over many hands, and the algorithm I suggested is just one possibility.
I usually play casual games with Total Points as the scoring method. The dealing control I proposed would not make sense for some other types of scoring.
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Dealing randomness
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Posted 2026-January-30, 14:45
dealing randomly already has this property that each player gets their fair share of good hands on the long run, doesn't it?
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Posted Today, 10:23
lorserker, on 2026-January-30, 14:45, said:
dealing randomly already has this property that each player gets their fair share of good hands on the long run, doesn't it?
Yes, but here's why I brought it up. I play once a week with my partner and another team. We play "casual bridge" games, Total points scoring. We play for 3 hours, and usually it is about 47 to 48 deals. It is very common for one team to get much better cards over the 3-hour period than the other team. Of course this happens when you play live bridge with real cards also, not only on BBO. But BBO could easily improve this with an algorithm that tends to more evenly distribute the good hands over a relatively small sample size of 40 to 50 deals. I'm not saying it should be the default behavior, but it would be nice to have a table setting to enable it.
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Posted Today, 14:33
Congratulations that you at least obtained a reply from @lorserker in January.
Since then he has failed to reply to a single post about the GIBBO variant that he created.
Does he still work for BBO and if so, what is going on?
Since then he has failed to reply to a single post about the GIBBO variant that he created.
Does he still work for BBO and if so, what is going on?
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