Ah, right. My thinking was that in the scenario proposed in the article, it doesn't matter what player 2 does (apart from the dice rolls, which is beyond their

Ah, right. My thinking was that in the scenario proposed in the article, it doesn't matter what player 2 does (apart from the dice rolls, which is beyond their control anyway) they'll still lose. You only have to control the actions of player 1. While in the auction scenario you need to control both players to make it work. So if you were actually playing as player 1 and all the dice rolls lined up, you would only be guaranteed to pull off the scenario in the article. But I guess it doesn't matter since both scenarios are theoretically possible.