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Just finished reading through that first link. Very interesting stuff! If I knew anything at all about how poker was played I might try to make one myself ;) I

Just finished reading through that first link. Very interesting stuff! If I knew anything at all about how poker was played I might try to make one myself ;) I completely agree about the current times, man. The amount of free (and quality!) educational material right now is pretty staggering. The Khan Academy alone was amazing, but now with things like Coursera, and the MIT open courses, it's pretty freaking unbelievable what's now at our fingertips. Definitely make those videos and blog posts! And send me a PM when you do :)

patrickk 15y ago
Poker is a simple game to learn if that's something you are interested in. "5 minutes to learn, a lifetime to master", is the cliche used. If you are interested in learning more, the second article in that series of posts I linked to has a 'recommended reading' section (Ctrl+F/ Cmd+F for "recommended reading"): http://web.archive.org/web/20100127104229/http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/how-i-built-a-working-online-poker-bot-2 http://web.archive.org/web/20100127104229/http://www.codingt... I'm hardly a poker shark myself, I just used to play a few local free-roll Texas Hold Em (THE) tournaments in my local area and online back in college. The rules are freely available all over the internet, as well as strategy guides, poker hand calculators, etc. The cool thing is most online casinos have a "practice play" section where you get like 1000 play money credits every day, so you can test and refine your poker bot without having to deposit cash. If you include your email address in your profile "about" section, I'll be sure to fire you an email if and when I do publish a series on any bots I make! It might be some time though, my mad skillz are somewhat lacking at the moment sadly. I'll post it here on hn and r/programming too, I'd be curious to hear what people think. ps. I think I may have found the article you referred to about the Bejewled bot: http://hackaday.com/2011/07/30/bejeweled-blitz-bot-makes-your-high-score-look-just-sad/#more-50716 http://hackaday.com/2011/07/30/bejeweled-blitz-bot-makes-you... Some nice links in the comments there too.

patrickk 15y ago

Poker is a simple game to learn if that's something you are interested in. "5 minutes to learn, a lifetime to master", is the cliche used. If you are interested in learning more, the second article in that series of posts I linked to has a 'recommended reading' section (Ctrl+F/ Cmd+F for "recommended reading"): http://web.archive.org/web/20100127104229/http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/how-i-built-a-working-online-poker-bot-2 http://web.archive.org/web/20100127104229/http://www.codingt... I'm hardly a poker shark myself, I just used to play a few local free-roll Texas Hold Em (THE) tournaments in my local area and online back in college. The rules are freely available all over the internet, as well as strategy guides, poker hand calculators, etc. The cool thing is most online casinos have a "practice play" section where you get like 1000 play money credits every day, so you can test and refine your poker bot without having to deposit cash. If you include your email address in your profile "about" section, I'll be sure to fire you an email if and when I do publish a series on any bots I make! It might be some time though, my mad skillz are somewhat lacking at the moment sadly. I'll post it here on hn and r/programming too, I'd be curious to hear what people think. ps. I think I may have found the article you referred to about the Bejewled bot: http://hackaday.com/2011/07/30/bejeweled-blitz-bot-makes-your-high-score-look-just-sad/#more-50716 http://hackaday.com/2011/07/30/bejeweled-blitz-bot-makes-you... Some nice links in the comments there too.