Nothingness: Now that is hard - everyone still close in points (everyone still has a great chance to win.... and lose), and at the same time the points left are still high.

As a rule for myself, when there are 4 players left, I almost always try to make sure my bid is at least 1 point higher then the last place person. But with 5 player left... that can be tricky.

As another rule/trend that I notice - as long as player have the points left - the bids will get bigger and bigger. So if the last bet was in the high 4000s, and everyone still has more then that - I would expect that the bids to be at least that much - if not more.

So back to the question - what would I do? Hum.... that is a hard question. I would probable play it safe - at least bid what the lowest player has. In Vikings case, if he is going to bid 5780 - he might as well bid 5991 and get the 500 bonus.

Of course if a couple of the players left were unrated/unexperianced, that might change the way I play a little also - not sure.

It is a hard question - it's hard to bid almost all your points when there is still 5 player left.... Can't wait to see what Pedro would do.