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One of the bots bid Nil but deliberately took a trick, why?

April 26, 2017bid bots deliberately nil Trick

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One of the bots bid Nil but deliberately took a trick, why?

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In certain game situations, this is actually smart play. If the opponents are about to win the game on THIS hand, then you MUST do anything it takes to stop them from winning. This means you basically have two options: • Set the opponents, especially if they bid 10-for-200. Unless your partner has a great hand and the opponents bid excessively high (which is very unlikely with them leading), and you bid Nil, the only chance you have to set them is to sacrifice your own Nil bid. About 80% of the time (especially on a 10-for bid), this works and you set them! Even with your Nil set, you stopped the win and are back in the game! OR • Bag out the opponents, especially if they already have 7 or 8 bags. Again, good players will see this and bid on the high side to prevent taking bags, but if they are high, its usually better to bid low (or Nil) and force them to eat as many bags as possible. If the Nil bidder took a trick, then that probably didn’t happen in this case. 41.