What are ACBL SYC Black Point Daylong Tournaments?

ACBL's SYC daylongs are similar to our popular ACBL sanctioned daylong tournaments. You can register, play at your own pace, leave the table, then resume the game later during the day without losing your results. You'll get the final results the next day in a BBO mail, and in the list of Completed tournaments.

When you play in one of these games, the majority of your table fees will be given back to your club. This way, you can help to support your club while also having the opportunity to win black masterpoints.

Game specifics:

• 18 boards, Matchpoints scoring
• BB$ 5 entry fee
• ACBL daylongs utilize advanced robots
• Once you begin, you have 24 hours to complete the set of 18 boards
• This game is stratified
• ACBL black masterpoints and BBO points awarded

Each table consists of a single human player, sitting South, and three robot players sitting in the other three seats.

Results
Results will be sent to your BBO Mailbox or they can be accessed in Recent Tournaments, in the History tab, once the Daylong is completed.

Best Hand
The human player is usually dealt the "best hand" (defined as the hand with the most high card points) at the table unless otherwise stated. Always having a good hand makes bridge more exciting and fun for most players!

Human Declares
The human player is switched into the North (Robot) seat whenever North is the declarer. The human player then declares the hand. When the hand is over, the human is switched back to his original seat.

Deal Pool
For every board in a Daylong tournament, we deal multiple instances. (ie Not everyone gets the same board 1, board 2, etc.) This is an anti cheating measure.

About the robots
The robots used on BBO are called GIB (Ginsberg's Intelligent Bridgeplayer). You can find out more about GIB's bidding system by clicking here.

The GIBs used in BBO play a relatively simple and natural 2/1 bidding system. You can find out the meaning of any bid by clicking on that bid as it appears in the bidding diagram. Furthermore,when it is your turn to bid, moving your mouse over the buttons for the various possible bids will cause an explanation of the bid you are considering (as your GIB partner will understand it) to be displayed. These explanations can be somewhat cryptic, but reading them carefully before you bid will help you to avoid misunderstandings with your GIB partner.