Where to find hands played by top players
Go to the BBO (Bridge Base Online) website. If for some reason you do not want to open a free account, you can still access their site by clicking the Look around our site button.
On the main site page drag the slider marked 1 to the center. In the Who's Online section the list of star players, those with yellow stars, should be showing. If it is not showing click the Stars tab (marked with a check mark and the number 2).
Now click the the light blue Sort by status button ( marked with the number 3). It will go red when the list is sorted.
At this point, if you wanted to, you could click on the player’s name and
then when the next dialog opens you could click on the
Join table button and go and watch them play live. But this is not what we are here to do.
I suggest you choose matches and tournaments because that is where players tend to try their hardest.
In the resulting table you can see a Movie column and a Lin column. The use of the Movie column is covered in the next post.
(Yes there is a real player with a BBO ID of 'fake'.)
P.S. Occasionally, normally in what would be the middle of the night in the US, the BBO Hand Record service is suspended for maintenance. So if you find it is not operating, try again later.
Scroll down the sorted list until you get to the area where the players are marked as Playing Tournaments or Matches.
At this point, if you wanted to, you could click on the player’s name and
then when the next dialog opens you could click on the
Join table button and go and watch them play live. But this is not what we are here to do.
Make a note of some of these players' BBO IDs (usernames). Open another browser window and go to the BBO
hands records page at -
Into
this dialog you can enter any of the BBO user IDs you found earlier. If there is some other good player such as a
teacher whose BBO ID you know then you could always use that. The logic we are using here is; given we have found a good player playing in a match now, it is quite likely that they have played a match or two in the recent past. I suggest you choose matches and tournaments because that is where players tend to try their hardest.
In the resulting table you can see a Movie column and a Lin column. The use of the Movie column is covered in the next post.
(Yes there is a real player with a BBO ID of 'fake'.)
P.S. Occasionally, normally in what would be the middle of the night in the US, the BBO Hand Record service is suspended for maintenance. So if you find it is not operating, try again later.
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