Rigged against you – Sheepshead, the App Review

I have played this game for 40+ years. I hold my own against other experienced players. Other than very short periods, you will constantly lose point ground against the app opponents. The app is very aggressive on picking and nearly always gets a partner with a strong hand with the ability to out trump at critical times. After 100+ games, I have been able to pick 9 times and 4 of those were aggressive picks. At the end of the 100 games, I was -68 with just one other app character slightly negative. I never got a loaner hand. This app is so badly rigged against you that it is boring. Update... I tried the called ace version. It should be called the “you no pic game”. I played 50 games. 47 were impossible to pick with... typically 2 trump and fail cards that would make a decent cribbage hand. The 3 good hands I got, the app picked in front of me. The picker loses more often than the diamond jack partner version, but not by much. Boring the way the app is ser up. Update #2: I tried another 50 hands and kept detailed notes. 41 times I got two or fewer trump. In the other 9 hands I never got more than four trump. I could only pick twice because the other seven times I more than two trump an app opponent picked in front of me. The two picked hands I lost... partner was weak and my picks were aggressive with little points buried. The 48 times I could not pick, I was the called ace partner 31 times which is statistically hard to believe. Boring to play with unrealistic odds stacked against you. I quit this app.update #3: I want to play the game so I kept trying. But I dislike this app to the max. Ridiculous app play... non partner trump leads and smears to the picker when not necessary and the picker obviously has the round. . Consistently deals me crap hands. Rigged, statistically impossible card power distribution. The app picker criteria AI is crap. The choice to pick seldom makes it to me... app e-players will pick for no rational reason... picks with just two trump is not uncommon... you having a picking hand is rare or the chance to pick seldom makes it to you. The app’s partner very often has a stronger hand than the app picker. Can you occasionally win? Yes, but rarely and even more rare as the picker because you seldom have the chance to pick. This time I am really moving on.
Review by raccoon 47 on Sheepshead, the App.