My advice is to bid early in the round when it's just you and another person. This way, he will be discouraged by your quick bids and think that you have a lot of tokens and are not even considering stopping.
Fully agree with that thought, I've won so many auctions against 'late bidders' which were probably as a result of "Bad Timing"
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