[swift70]

I am not sure if this is the right subforum to post this in, but here goes.

Most of the free tournaments hosted on BBO which use predealt hands seem to mostly consist of freak hands.
Almost all of these predealt hand tournaments have bidding which goes like 4♥-4♠-5♥-5♠-6♥-6♠- Every hand goes into 5-6-7 levels in competitive bidding and each team has 11+ cards of their suit.

Are such pre-dealt hands specially selected? What's the deal with this? And what's the point in playing tournaments with just these kind of hands.

[barmar]

Are these "ghoulash" tournaments? Do you know that that word means?

BBO doesn't put many restrictions on hosts of free tournaments, as long as they are not abusive to players. However, I think if they're going to make ghoulash hands, it's reasonable to expect them to make it clear in the tourney description. If you find tourney hosts who aren't doing this, please send mail to abuse@bridgebase.com.

[swift70]

barmar, on 2012-September-05, 08:37, said:

Are these "ghoulash" tournaments? Do you know that that word means?

Not sure if these were advertised as 'goulash' tournaments. I will keep an eye next time.