[EarlPurple]

Any chance of a table where you don't receive any requests to join at all?

[macaw]

Yes, set it up as invisible after you log in invisible

[Rain]

If you can elaborate, Earlpurple, maybe someone can give you some good ideas. I mean, you can remove "require permission to sit", then nobody will need permission to sit and you won't receive the requests.

Macaw mentioned the invisible table option, perhaps the easiest for you, since your invitees (reserve seat in their name) can still see the seats/table.

Or if you have permission, set up your table in a private club where only selected people have access to the club and to your table.

Whichever is easiest for you.

[EarlPurple]

making myself invisible didn't help - my table still got requests.

Marking the seat as reserved does help but then I can't run around the seats.

And why when I have done a run around the seats does the result of the board sometimes come up as passed-out and the result in the sheet in dark blue?

[Gerardo]

make yourself invisible AND make the table invisible.

Players will see the table if a seat has their name.

[Rain]

Making yourself invisible will not help. You are invisible until you join a table (or start one) or kibitz a table. You need to open a table, and select "invisible" so that the table is invisible.

When you jump around the seats, each time you jump, the board changes. The software automatically changes the cards when someone who has seen the cards before sits down. So each time you move around you are bidding on a new set.

Bottom line is, you can't play with yourself. Play with the bots if you like. Or open an invisible teaching table. However, at teaching table, you will see all hands, so its going to take a lot of determination to play.