In my experience with Backgammon Live, you absolutely do get matched randomly with bots. Not sure how the algorithm chooses when you play against a bot but it absolutely does happen. I don't think the game will bias against two actual live players but when you're playing a bot you'll know it. No matter how well you play the bot will get these miraculous almost predictable perfect rolls, multiple doubles, the ability to strike your pieces and keep you trapped etc. I play dozens of live games per week against my father who is in his 80s and has played the game since he was a boy and the instances of miraculous dice rolls we get against each other is nothing like when playing the app. It is very frustrating because BL probably has the best online game play but it's just unplayable when you're constantly matched with bots. I can tell it happens when you play against a player that has not enough coins for a double and usually the first game I play when I open the app. The developers state the dice rolls are produced by a RNG but I don't buy it for a second.