The Day MAME Saved My Ass

Re:The Day MAME Saved My Ass by redthrowaway on Sunday December 12, 2010 @01:37PM (#1997586)

>another example: texas holdem. it may be fun playing with friends in your spare time, but i'm pretty sure it's a brain wreckingly monotonous chore if you have to do it for hours, 4 games open simultaneously at any time. not much fun in that.

No, but writing the bot to do it for you would be fun.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The Day MAME Saved My Ass by JonnieCache on Sunday December 12, 2010 @03:46PM (#1997965)

Apparently writing poker bots is miserable.

Poker AI that can beat the average human you will find online is pretty trivial to write. Running profitable poker bots involves spending 90% of your time touching up your scraping algorithms to cope with the ever changing DOM of the casino sites, which shifts dynamically to prevent exactly this kind of thing.

With the level of programming skills required you can earn way more money with a legitimate job.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008kj9m

That programme in the link can be had for download if you look. Don't worry I've already paid for it, its on me.

[ Parent | on HN ]