[wildcattwa]

My wife and I want to play North-South against 2 robots, using random deals. Since the "Premium" changes, almost all the other tables' results we see have robots playing North, East, and West. This was not previously the case, and it was far more interesting to see how other humans bid and played our hands.
I can't believe we're alone in our desire to play north-south against robots.

How can set up the game so that we see results from other tables with humans playing north/south?

[steve2005]

social bridge
start a table
toggle permission required to play (to keep others from joining)
start table
click the 3 bars icon
click table options
click on west select robot
click on east select robot
clock on south select reserve then select your partner
click apply
sit north

[wildcattwa]

Hello Steve, thanks for the response.

However, that is exactly how I've been setting up our table.
The problem is that when I look at "Other Tables" for a hand (the equivalent of a traveler in club duplicate bridge), the vast majority of other tables have one named person sitting south, and three robots in the other seats.
For example, this morning one hand had 15 other tables, 13 of which had 3 robots, and 2 had 4 robots.
This pattern was similar on all the other hands we played.

I'd much prefer to see "Other Tables" with humans sitting North/South.

I'm hoping there's some way of setting up our table so that this happens.

Cheers.

steve2005, on 2026-October-12, 16:52, said:

social bridge
start a table
toggle permission required to play (to keep others from joining)
start table
click the 3 bars icon
click table options
click on west select robot
click on east select robot
clock on south select reserve then select your partner
click apply
sit north

[barmar]

We've never discriminated between the number of robots at a table when dealing hands. It may just be that there aren't as many people playing in arrangements like yours, so there aren't many of them to compare with.

[wildcattwa]

Thanks for the reply.
I still believe something changed with the introduction of "Premium" membership.
I wonder if 3-robot tournament deals weren't used on casual tables in the past?
As for the 4-robot tables, I'm definitely seeing an increase in the number of these. Where do these come from?

barmar, on 2026-October-17, 09:02, said:

We've never discriminated between the number of robots at a table when dealing hands. It may just be that there aren't as many people playing in arrangements like yours, so there aren't many of them to compare with.

[barmar]

My answer earlier wasn't quite complete.

We do have separate sets of deals for all-human tables and tables with robots. So when you play with humans only, your comparisons will almost always be with other humans (occasionally a robot may be subbed in when someone gets disconnected).

But within the robot deals we don't discriminate based on the number of robots. We think premium may have just reduced the number of people playing against only 1 or 2 robots. Nothing changed intentionally in how we deal the hands, it's just a side effect.