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July 22nd, 2005

I posted recently about how each new year brings with it fresh surprises and keeps you on your toes. Well with that in mind I decided for the first time to plough my blog archives and discovered that a year ago I was coming back from a blogging absence and trying to write a robot poker playing program that would make me a millionaire.

Hmm.

Well now that I’m back from a blogging absence let’s now talk about the poker assistance program I’m trying to write just now. I recently discovered that the online poker software I use keeps a handy archive of every game you ever play. What’s more, it’s in a nice format that can be mined by a computer program should you decide to write one.

My ultimate aim is for it to automatically detect betting patterns in opponents and flag them up as you play.

The reason I mention this is that whilst coding said program this lunchtime, it confirmed for me something that I posted about the other day - the futility of taking notes in low stakes poker.

The data has revealed that in the past four weeks of poker playing, I have been up against no less than five-hundred and sixty different opponents. There’s no way you could ever keep track of them all without computer assistance.

Enter ‘Holdem HUD’ - patent not pending. I’ll keep you posted.

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