Swoopo Single Bid – Timing Against Bid Butlers

There is a very interesting rule regarding the placement of Bid Butlers.  The rule states that a Bid Butler will place a bet automatically when there is a certain amount of time left on the clock.  The time ranges from 10-1 seconds left.

You can use the single bid technique to your advantage given this rule.  Let’s take a look. In this scenario we will assume that you are bidding against two other opponents who are using a bid butlers.  This technique actually works even better if more people are using Bid Butler’s, but we will use 2 other people to keep the example simple.

If you are against one other Bid Butler you need to commit to going the distance and winning no matter what.  You also need to bid when there is exactly four seconds left on the clock.  In this scenario you will use fewer bids than the person using the Bid Butler.

In the example of single bidder who bids at the 3.5 second mark vs. the bid butler who bids randomly between 10 and 1 seconds.  I haven’t checked the randomization, but we will assume an even distribution between 10 and 1.  Remember the same person can not bid 2x in a row.

BB = Bid Butler

SB = Single Bidder

Bidding Table
The number values indicate when the person will bid with the amount of time remaining.

In this example there were 18 trials.  If you were bidding against two other people you would expect to bid 1/3 of the time or be forced to bid 6 times. From the example above the person using single bidding only used 4 bids.  They saved 1 bid for every 9 rounds of bidding.

Of course this is a lab example.  In a real world example if you were against two other bid butlers they would more than likely have similar price ranges plugged in against each other. In that scenario you may bid first and then the next 9 bids Swoopo would force the Bid Butlers against each other and the single bidder would not be included in the bidding at all.  So instead of using two bids per 9 trials you would have only used one or possibly none.  This is the power of using Single Bidding.

It would seem like this is the way to go however remember that single bidding runs the risk of missing the chance to actually place a bid.  If you are to slow or your computer freaks out you have just lost a big opportunity.