Poker madness

July 5th, 2004

At last someone has used the random MSN messaging feature (Over there on the left) for something other than blank messages or childish nonsense. This just in…

“Mick randomly said: Online poker is an evil, evil game. Don’t let the wife catch you OR leave your credit card statements lying around.”

Sounds like the voice of bitter experience Mike. I’m happy to say that only one wife-approved payment was made three months ago and has since been up and down more than a bride’s knickers.

Mind you, breaking even all the time has only limited appeal - I believe I can do better. I have therefore started writing a poker-playing robot that will take over the tiresome task of betting for me. This has several advantages, namely…

• Robots don’t tilt.
• Robots don’t make silly mistakes.
• Time spent writing the robot is time spent not playing poker.

Unlike most of my crazy programming schemes, this one is actually looking close to being completed, so I’ll unleash it in a practice room soon and report back on how it fares.

If it fares well then no, you can’t have a copy and no, you can’t know the robot’s user id.

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