[joepea]

I've tried to get some answers about the computers used for the money games/tourneys.Do the GIB'S peak in your hands when playing/bidding.how does one get the hand records after the sessions and is there a governing board that oversees/ fields complaints etc? Can anyone assist me in getting these answers?

[inquiry]

Hi, I will try to give you my understanding.

1. No gib doesn't peak into your hand

2. To see hands, click on the green dollar sign to open a new browser page.
Then choose the middle link on that page to see recent activity option (in the middle). Enter you bbo name and password, and you will see a list of hands you played and the money won/lost on them.

3. There is no board of anything. The terms you play under is given in when you join the money bridge rooms. If you discover a software problem (GIB doing something you or the world would consider stupid is not a software problem) contact the programmers here or by email.

Hope that helps.

[joepea]

Thanks 4 ur reply! I still haven't been able to view the tournaments that I participated in? I can get standings but when I click on hand records it states no data available. I've had a couple of hands that i thought GIB goy me and wanted to view them. I opened 1nt and GIB jumped to 3hts(splinter) on a 6 count! I didn't know it was a splinter so I raised to 4hts on AKXX and needless to say we were killed! In another tourney I entered I sat and defended the whole time mostly getting 4 and 6point hands while GIB bid games and slams for all but the last 2 of 15 hands.The defense as far as I could tell did nothing wrong but one couldn't tell it by the standing 9th of 10 places? I wanted to review the hands just to comfirm that my/our play was as horrendous as my placement, No hand records were available?

[inquiry]

the money bridge tourneys with three robots at your table are NOT DUPLICATE. If you get bad hand after bad hand, you will lose. If you get good hand after good hand, you should win. Over many such events, the better players will do better.

For MBT no hand records are kept, i was descibing money bridge room where you play head-to-head.

[uday]

We do have the hands. I am not sure we should be exposing them via myhands. Maybe I'll add a my-mbt-hands to the money bridge admin page ?

[G_R__E_G]

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Maybe I'll add a my-mbt-hands to the money bridge admin page ?

I'd like that Uday. There's been times when I thought GIB took an unusual line and I'd like to go back afterwards when time is not such an issue to do some analysis.

[pigpenz]

uday, on May 16 2006, 08:47 PM, said:

We do have the hands. I am not sure we should be exposing them via myhands. Maybe I'll add a my-mbt-hands to the money bridge admin page ?

why would you not want to let people see the other results? I can figure out how the results can be so diverse when I have played in the free ones unless people intentionally do stuff to try and take advantage of the bots bidding system. Are all bots created equal? Or is is just a matter of the power of the machine you are playing on?

[uday]

All bots are equal, but I don't think it is clear that X should be allowed to look at Y's hands after the tourney.

It might give away the little tricks Y has learned over the months that help him get the most out of GIBs (if there are any such things).

Anyway, it certainly doesnt feel like X has the "right" to look at Ys hands. I'm ok w/Y looking at his own hands, of course.

[pigpenz]

uday, on May 17 2006, 06:10 PM, said:

All bots are equal, but I don't think it is clear that X should be allowed to look at Y's hands after the tourney.

It might give away the little tricks Y has learned over the months that help him get the most out of GIBs (if there are any such things).

Anyway, it certainly doesnt feel like X has the "right" to look at Ys hands. I'm ok w/Y looking at his own hands, of course.

Gee, it almost sounds like its not real bridge going on in those games

[uday]

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Gee, it almost sounds like its not real bridge going on in those games

The bots are certainly not for everyone. You need a thick skin and an ability to move past crazy results w/o steam coming out of your ears and focus on the next board.

You can find out if you like playing with the bots by trying the free mb tourneys, or by playing in the "fun money" rooms .

[chicken]

and the bots are still software, so there are players who know how to increase the chance of opps gib doing silly things. so why give away those tools to everybody?
i know players who spent about 10000 hands in the free moneybridge room or @ a table in the main club with three gibs to find things out, so i dont think it is fair to let everybody see their MBT hands.

[pigpenz]

i guess i would rather know how to manipulate real people at the bridge table not robots. Ill just stick to my commercial version of GIB thank you