Boulder Buy’em Poker
The boulder gamedev club had a card game jam this week. My group made a poker variant. It’s pretty good (it received the high praise from Namaste, “I’m not sure if it’s better than no limit Texas Hold’em”). The game has been dubbed “Boulder Buy’em” by Paul Steinbrecker. Here are the rules. Each player, as [...]
Haskell State Accessors (second attempt: Composability)
Last week I introduced some constructs to make programming games with Haskell easier, mostly the idea of an accessor for dealing nicely with highly stateful functions. The (refined once) abstraction looked like this: data Accessor s a = Accessor { getVal :: forall m. MonadState s m => m a , setVal :: forall m. [...]
Werepoker bidding
All week I have been trying to program Werepoker and giving up after the first 20 minutes or so. I think that’s partially because it’s needlessly tough networking and threading, and partially because I know there is a high probability that the program would never be used. Well, I want to play werepoker tonight at [...]
Gambling problem
I’ve thought of a gambling problem (read: probability problem) that I can’t seem to solve using the methods I know of. The problem is to find an optimal playing strategy for the following game: Pay me $100. I give you one chip (worth $1). You can decide to keep your $1 and walk away (down [...]
Planned Play
I’ve adopted the strategy of making planned plays in Poker. I usually make my concrete plan on the flop, from a loose plan preflop. I’ve found that this strategy takes my play to a new level, and I’m beginning to conjecture why it works so well. I think the main reason it works well for [...]
Misère Poker
I’ve been pondering a misère poker tournament. A misère game is a modification of a game where each player tries to lose the original game (modified with peer assistance from “where you try to lose,” because you never try to lose). So the first one out wins. What kinds of hands would you play? Low [...]
Poker Moneys
My PartyPoker account currently has $250 in it after a $80 buy in. This was after accumulating up to $300 then dropping down to $100, both very quickly. The $150 since then has increased very steadily, something like $30-$50 a day. That makes me feel much better about my playing. My home game has corrupted [...]
Reversing Play
Poker night tonight. We’re all coming to the point where we’re considering what each other player is thinking (including myself). I thought that we had reached this point a long time ago, but now that I bring it up honestly, it seems that’s not the case. We managed to get to a fairly advanced level [...]
Poker Rationale
The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. H. Ellison Therefore, playing poker for money is as rational as using Hydrogen for power. There. Now I don’t need to feel bad about gambling :-).
Andy Dick
I’ve just made a Poker enemy. His name is Andy, and I first met him at his $50 buy-in tournament. He said that he doesn’t want to play with me anymore. This is usually a good sign for a Poker player. He’s a gambler. He calls everything, supposing he has anything at all. He takes [...]
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