[hatchett]

Increasingly players seem to leave a money bridge table when they have picked up a bad hand. I have never worried too much about the assigned scores but recently I have had a couple of really weird ones.

This week my partner GIB opened 1NT and I had a 4441 15 count and I was assigned +180 lol.

and with ♠Jxx ♥AQx ♦AQJTxxx ♣- opp ♠ x ♥ Kxx ♦ xxxx ♣ AQ9xx vul against not

after 1♦ p 1NT assigned -600 lol

[junyi_zhu]

hatchett, on Feb 3 2010, 10:57 AM, said:

Increasingly players seem to leave a money bridge table when they have picked up a bad hand. I have never worried too much about the assigned scores but recently I have had a couple of really weird ones.

This week my partner GIB opened 1NT and I had a 4441 15 count and I was assigned +180 lol.

and with ♠Jxx ♥AQx ♦AQJTxxx ♣- opp ♠ x ♥ Kxx ♦ xxxx ♣ AQ9xx vul against not

after 1♦ p 1NT assigned -600 lol

Yes, this is a big concern. When players with bad hands leave, they have an unfair and intrinsic advantage, because human players are often better than computers, so averagely speaking, the good hand holder should suffer, either from bad bidding of computer or bad play of computer. The bad hand holder actually don't suffer much at all, because if you hold no HCP, you are actually not quite involved in the hand. The solution is actually very very simple, for those who left, his position should be replaced by a computer and his opponents should be able to continue the bidding and play.