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I tried to make it, I really did, but the stories and other stuff up front made it impossible. I made it through one scroll and, by that point, I had found noth

I tried to make it, I really did, but the stories and other stuff up front made it impossible. I made it through one scroll and, by that point, I had found nothing interesting about Postgre or online poker and I bailed. Now that I come back here and see that this was submitted by "4chan4ever", I feel a bit dirty for having visited.

brown9-2 17y ago
On the contrary, I thought it was actually an interesting history of poker players using software to track hand history (a subject which is very common to his blog), and how the industry/area grew into using Postgres. Its not really meant to be a technical article but rather a history of sorts. As an aside, does anyone else ever feel the desire to start programming some sort of poker app whenever they read codingthewheel? Seems like it'd be such a fun area for a side-project!
- jah 17y ago
  I've you're serious about writing a poker bot, you should check out the forums at http://pokerai.org http://pokerai.org. I recently started developing a bot and found several useful nuggets of information on the site. Be warned though, everything feels like a hack when writing a poker bot (specifically determining the state of the game from a screenshot ... kind of a pseudo-OCR). And finally, no, I haven't made any significant income from my bot (as it current only plays preflop on 6-max tables ... I manually takeover after the flop).
  - brown9-2 17y ago
    Codingthewheel actually did a pretty intensive and in-depth series of blog posts about building a poker bot, you might want to check it out if you haven't already. IIRC covered things like communicating with the other processes, using Win32 APIs to scrape the text and controls of the poker client, how poker clients attempt to detect bots, etc.
blhack 17y ago
I couldn't disagree with you any more. My usual (although probably totally unhealthy) habit of waking up and immediately (as in...within 20 seconds of opening my eyes) checking HN, gibsonandlily.com, reddit.com, and slashdot.com led me to this article. I read the entire thing from beginning to end (which is rare, for me), and thoroughly enjoyed the entire thing. In fact, as I was reading it, I kept remarking to myself how much I enjoyed the writing style. To each his own, I guess. It does frighten me a bit, though, that people make this complaint so much. What do people who can't be bothered to read a couple of pages worth of a story do when they are confronted by a book, magazine, or newspaper? (or a kindle).
- ScottWhigham 17y ago
  I'm not a "nurturer" by default and so, after "x" has occurred (with "x" being different for each medium) and I've found nothing of interest, I bail. Different personalities and that's okay :)

brown9-2 17y ago

On the contrary, I thought it was actually an interesting history of poker players using software to track hand history (a subject which is very common to his blog), and how the industry/area grew into using Postgres. Its not really meant to be a technical article but rather a history of sorts. As an aside, does anyone else ever feel the desire to start programming some sort of poker app whenever they read codingthewheel? Seems like it'd be such a fun area for a side-project!

jah 17y ago
I've you're serious about writing a poker bot, you should check out the forums at http://pokerai.org http://pokerai.org. I recently started developing a bot and found several useful nuggets of information on the site. Be warned though, everything feels like a hack when writing a poker bot (specifically determining the state of the game from a screenshot ... kind of a pseudo-OCR). And finally, no, I haven't made any significant income from my bot (as it current only plays preflop on 6-max tables ... I manually takeover after the flop).
- brown9-2 17y ago
  Codingthewheel actually did a pretty intensive and in-depth series of blog posts about building a poker bot, you might want to check it out if you haven't already. IIRC covered things like communicating with the other processes, using Win32 APIs to scrape the text and controls of the poker client, how poker clients attempt to detect bots, etc.

blhack 17y ago

I couldn't disagree with you any more. My usual (although probably totally unhealthy) habit of waking up and immediately (as in...within 20 seconds of opening my eyes) checking HN, gibsonandlily.com, reddit.com, and slashdot.com led me to this article. I read the entire thing from beginning to end (which is rare, for me), and thoroughly enjoyed the entire thing. In fact, as I was reading it, I kept remarking to myself how much I enjoyed the writing style. To each his own, I guess. It does frighten me a bit, though, that people make this complaint so much. What do people who can't be bothered to read a couple of pages worth of a story do when they are confronted by a book, magazine, or newspaper? (or a kindle).

ScottWhigham 17y ago
I'm not a "nurturer" by default and so, after "x" has occurred (with "x" being different for each medium) and I've found nothing of interest, I bail. Different personalities and that's okay :)