Re: [Rails-devel] Issue with Private Bid Auction order

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

On 2012-09-27 20:47, Dave Mitton wrote:
> First off; I believe and play with people that have never disagreed 
> with me... that
> the main order of the Initial Stock Round in 1830 stays in seating 
> order and does not skip around.
> 
> Auctions are triggered by a purchase that causes the contested 
> private to be next in private order. Once triggered they happen 
> outside the SR turn order.
> 
> So if there are bids on all privates except the SVRR, and then the 
> SVRR is purchased,
> the auctions happen, and then the next player in order gets their SR turn.

Agreed on all of the above.

> In the BBG game; it was the order of the auction that surprised people.
> Evidently RAILS conducted the auction in table order as well.  This 
> was surprising because it did not start with the low bidder, but the 
> next around the table from the previous auction.
> In some ways it really doesn't matter,  The current "ante" (to borrow 
> some poker terminology) to stay in the auction was set by the highest 
> bidder or last bidder.  However you must admit that it is traditional 
> that an auction starts with the person that bid first (and is 
> therefore the lowest stale bid).

No.  It is traditional for the auction to go around the table in seating
order, starting with the player after the one who made the last and highest
bid (for the item now being auctioned) before the auction began.

All other bids for the same item that were made before the auction began
have no further effect except to establish eligibility; they may have been
made in any order, since they happened on stock turns on which each player
could have bought or bid on other items.  There is no reason to want to
preserve the order in which they were made.