Even thought you guys seems to be ignoring my blog since i've started talking about game programming instead of girls, i'll post anyways.
I just programmed a pong game, but whats interesting about it is, i programmed 2 AIs for the computers.
The first one, called "Basic" just follows the ball around. Super effective while its as fast as the ball, but quickly gets useless.
The second one, called "Perfect", right after hitting the ball instantly calculate where the next ball will be, and goes there and wait.
needless to say the second AI is very difficult to beat.
The game allows you to customize your game. Right now you have the following options:
Ennemy size and AI
Ally size and AI (yes you can have a computer to help you)
Your size
Helping walls size (you can have small walls in the back. they doesnt move but they can be usefull)
Even by giving myself a super big handicap (i get helping walls, a basic ally with 150 size, myself with 100 size, ennemy with just 30 size with 0 help), the AI is still near unbeatable.
Even thought this game isn't the most fun thing ever, i am happy i programmed a perfect AI for a "real time" game. Next i might try to make some sort of 2d shooting game (maybe tanks or something). Any idea is welcome.
Note: Beginning screens offer you the options. The default option is good and shows how good the perfect AI is. If you want to mess around with it do it, but don't do stupid things such as entering letters, or negative values, or stupidly high values (the screen is 350 wide, so no need to put anything bigger than 350) things like that will make the program crash (no big deal, it will just tell you there was an error and it close, i tested it )
However you can put "0" in an option if you want to remove it.
As I'm sure a few of you are aware I recently posted a rather embarrassing whine blog, my apologies to those it annoyed. It was a moment of frustration borne out of losing a significant portion of my roll through short-term EV. Many will simply state you shouldn't play with a short roll in PLO but I've firmly come to believe that escaping the rake trap is far more important than prolonging ones stay at low stakes with rigid BR management.
So here's the simple storyline. I've had 1k trapped on FTP for ages, the vast majority of my online roll. I've also had 150 on Pokerstars just sitting there untouched since Black Friday happened. I've always wanted to return to poker but for whatever reason made excuses not to. I had trouble committing real time to working on my game and had always been just a casual grinder. That much is self-evident in my 175k hands played over the last 4-5 years. I played 20k hands in February in addition to my full-time job. I started by 1-tabling at PLO50 and eventually I was 8-10 tabling with around 1750 in my roll. I was running about even on EV until short-term variance struck. I ran very cold for an extended streak of 3-bet pots and all-in pots. Anyone who plays PLO is bound to know when you start getting badly out-flopped after 3-betting 20% of your stack it's trouble. The variance hit hard and my roll is down to a pithy 350. Some will ask, why didn't you just move down? Well I've always considered my bankroll to the combined amount from my FTP frozen funds and what's left on Pokerstars. Similar to how players on multiple sites think of their bankroll as one unit rather than small chunks.
I mostly believe my mistake was allowing myself to play more than 2-4 tables before escaping the rake trap. All I did was encourage variance to slap me in the face and reduce my edge in the games. This was utter foolishness and for the most part I got what I deserved for my over-aggressive attempt.
What I'm looking to do now is to consolidate my bankroll. I'm looking to gain early access to my 1k stuck on FTP by having someone transfer me 1k on stars. I have a long posting history and no blemishes on my LP record. There are players from this site who know me in real life who can vouch for me if need be. If FTP does not eventually pay me the 1k to forward to whoever helps me out I will simply pay the 1k myself. If anyone is willing to help me out with this please PM me immediately.
So, I've been watching a few LeggoPoker videos on Stroggs account (cause I am a too cheap to pay for it myself) And the Chess videos are amazing.
The coach, Curtains, is an international grandmaster who travels to alot of big live tournies in his quest to "not suck at the game" (even though he is already in top 100 in the world or something, heh).
He is very focused on making the correct play, and thinking things through, and making the best play. Also he is hyperactive, reminds me a little of day[9]. He was the guy who played Durrr for $50k in a chess game
He, somehow, makes exciting chess videos.
And its been helping me with poker, really getting me to re-evaluate my position in the a hand, and to figure out if I can do something like run a three barrel, or raise a river.
It's better than a poker training video. Rather than just doing what a video tells me, I am taking his approach/mindset and applying it to a HU match, and finding alot of creative lines to take.
Just talking in terms of kicking ass has made me more excited to play good poker.
Yep, thats it, having a bunch of new words to apply to compeditive situation has made me more focused at poker.
Phew, ok, I got that pinned down, blog is a sucess. thanks LP
P.S. My Graph for Feb. NL50 to NL400, HU 6max and FR. + Show Spoiler +
I dunno, just stuck in act IV at the battle vs the ancients quest. I'm not anywhere near being able to beat them with my Frenzy Barb. My strength is at like 205 or something, dext at 115, and been pumping the rest of the points into vital. Maxed out frenzy, axe mastery, double swing, and working on maxing out taunt for max dps. My armor and resistances are already solid, about 1400 armor and all resistances above 55 at least. I should have probably done my weapon mastery last since I am not getting any good nightmare axe drops at all, but I heard the axe class has the best one arm weapons.
My frost mage mercenary has been hangin out with me since normal mode and he's lvl 65 also with some good gear as well, increased his casting rate, he got max resists and solid armor.
but man fuuuuu, I'm guessing I got to just keep grinding beginning-mid act IV and hope someone drops a fkn good axe? Are drops completely random or do certain types of enemies tend to drop certain items?
"In the most brutal and often most misunderstood sport in the world, becoming a champion takes more than just blood, sweat, and tears. Like Water follows middleweight Ultimate Fighter Anderson Silva as he prepares to crown his four-year run as the unbeaten king of the sport with a record 12th straight win in the UFC. With intimate access to Silva and his intense training, the surprising and inspiring man behind one of the greatest mixed martial artists of all time emerges."
86k hands, almost half of the 150k goal (luckily the guy I bet with didn't make it either)
finished at 100k VPPs for the year so gg SNE pretty much unless some sick move ups occur
Ok this is my newest game: its a game that kinda practice estimating probabilities (your not suposed to actually hard calculate it on paper, just try to play with mental thinking).
In this game, you are given an army of soldiers that always gets to shoot first, against another army (after they shoot, your survivors shoot again, and then their survivors shoot again, until one side is decimated). Each soldier have a % to shoot which is displayed. Soldier always shoots the ennemy soldier which is on top. It is possible for your soldiers to kill multiple ennemies in a round (each of your soldier could sucessfully shoot if your lucky).
Note that order is important. in the example in the picture, if your soldier with good accuracy was swapped with the lower accuracy one, then your side would loose hard.
Your objective is to decide wether to fight or pull. The game simulate the battle 5000 times (which is enough to be really confident the % is right with a max of 1% of error) and if your decision is smart, your "Streak" goes up by 1, if it is wrong it goes back to 0.
The main objective of the game is to get a decent winning streak (like 10) on the highest difficulty level you can (at level 49 the difference between both armies is so small it would be really difficult to do a 10 win streak by just mentally estimating).
The lower the difficulty level, the easier it is to guess which side will win (if you put it at 1, it will generate stupid fights anyone would know which side will win. 49 gives fights which are nearly a coin flip. 45 is good)
I think I'm probably playing too crazy at Nl and leveling myself but there are so many abc guys I feel like I have to do something else.. was playing too loose and spewy at plo cutting down on tables, table selecting and talking to spicy helped.
Feels bad man, I was a break-even 25NL player for a long time before I decided to get better and be honest with myself.
That's when I started to grind 4NL even though I'm rolled for 10NL or 16NL on stars, but I wanted to crush at least 1 limit first. But here we are... I definitely played looser than I'm used to running at 22/18 so there's definitely ALOT of spew and leaks.
I have to work on emotional issues, auto-piloting issues, not getting frustrated when i constantly get min 3-bet, stop 4-bet bluffing, stop tilting and get better psychologically.
Gotta also work on fundamentals, properly adjusting and plugging up leaks/spew.
Old school dusty blogby DustySwedeDude, February 29
Since my change of site I've been feeling good. Played a lot of hands (22k in a week), did decent in some Sunday tournament and was fairly close to make a good score and thanks to gold/silver prices I've made a bit of money despite not actually playing at any decent limits in poker. I'm super excited about my girl getting a job in her home town up in Sundsvall since that means that I don't have to put that much money into buying a house but rather can buy something cheap or rent something and then put a ton of money into investments. Going really crazy with my investment profile and let's just say I'm rooting for a higher gold price...
Going to try to get like 50k hands in next month despite it being fairly clogged up with stupid stuff I need to do. Got some fairly reasonable goals as far as hands goes and I might actually get a year with a decent amount of volume in, which would serve very good as an indicator on the topic of "Can Dusty still cut it in poker?". I dunno. Anyway;
This was pretty fun:
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Proxy stuff is cool.
I'm really looking forward to the Strikeforce event this weekend. Might be really cool. Go Ronda!
10k posts! I was thinking about what to write about, and I will just go with totally random blog about what I learned the past few weeks.
My new job is starting tomorrow, or might I dare to say: Career. I am going to be a salesman, or 'assistant buyer' or 'sales consultant' as people in the profession like to call themselves. After a month of studying, watching the entire US Office, every single sales movie there is, hours of audios and four books I am very excited to get cracking.
There are a lot of similarities to poker - the need to focus on the process and eliminate fear of failure, steep learning curve, easy to get in, hard to stay and make it, short term variance, and pretty much identical learning process: Read books, listen to audios, talk to other salesmen, learn from your mistakes and tons of opportunities to try new approaches with every new sales call.
Perhaps the greatest lesson that resonates among every resource I read and that is directly applicable to poker is the importance of positive self-image. A while back there was a huge discussion about Wobbly, and how delusional the bastard is in believing he is the best. Turns out that exactly that is what makes him and other people successful - you will never become what you don't believe in, and when you don't fear failure you will take action instead of procrastinating. Experiments in Social Psychology have shown that people that have a very strong, even over the top self belief in themselves are really more successful and happier than those that don't, even though the side effect often is what happened to Wobbly - this belief will antagonize some people if you take it too far.
Positive thinking won't let you do anything, but it will help you do everything better than negative thinking will Zig Ziglar
Oh well poker world, that was pretty random wasn't it I felt I had to post a semi-meaningful 10k post and not waste it on the Tutz banned thread. Peace ut LP
Supernova Rakeback / Sunday Stormby SolarM, February 27
Hey guys, played the Sunday Storm on Pokerstars yesterday and got really deep to about 200K starting at 5K and got killed by AT preflop all in while holding AA. Fuck it! Only received 80$...
I've learned a lot in the last few days, cause I've played lots of NL10 and feel really comfortable to beat this game. I've realized at last, that it's the big decisions that differenciate the good and the bad players... Not wheather to cbet or not. It's the big pots and the proper decisions. Right? :D
I just calculated the Rakeback for Supernova and Supernova Elite just for fun... Here are my results :
Supernova : 4000$ back for each 12987$ Rake they pay (30.8%) PLUS average 3114$ (2600+2800+3000+3200+3600+3800+4200 (the more they play, the more they gain, but I will just calculate the average) for each 18181$ Rake they pay (17.13%) = 47.93% Rakeback!
Supernova Elite : 4000$ back for each 9090$ Rake they pay (44%) PLUS average 11700$ (9200+9200+9200+19200+9200+9200+9200+19200)for each 45455$ Rake they pay (25.74%) = 69.74% Rakeback!
What the fuck, thats a lot. And I didn't even calculate the 20K Bonus when reaching Supernova Elite.
Since doing math is fun at 5AM I will calculate BronzeStar, SilverStar, GoldStar and PlatinumStar as well...
BronzeStar : 25$ back for each 455$ Rake they pay (5.5%) PLUS average 10$ for each 182$ Rake they pay (5.5%) = 11% Rakeback!
SilverStar : 50$ back for each 545$ Rake they pay (9.2%) PLUS average 50$ for each 909$ Rake they pay (5.5%) = 14.7% Rakeback!
GoldStar : 300$ back for each 2273$ Rake they pay (13.2%) PLUS average 50$ for each 909$ Rake they pay (5.5%) = 18.7% Rakeback!
PlatinumStar : 650$ back for each 3636$ Rake they pay (17.9%) PLUS average 50$ for each 909$ Rake they pay (5.5%) = 23.4% Rakeback!
Thanks for listening... Do you think those amounts are correct?
My venture back into online pokerby Carthac, February 27
Hello everybody. Since Black Friday hit, I stopped playing online poker all together. Switched more to live play and had success, but given the size of my BR, I could not grind like I did micros. Games are incredibly soft, but you still need a proper sized BR to handle variance, and I am a huge BR nit so I like more buy-ins than the standard. With the recent litigation in America not going through, and the rumor being there will not be anything done with online poker until 2013, I decided to just start from scratch back at NL10 with a moderate amount of money that I could afford losing. I just truly love the game of poker, and want to keep playing/learning as much as possible. I don't fully expect to get this money back as the U.S. market is shady at best, but I am getting my online game back together. Before Black Friday, I was learning NL50 and beginning to get the hang of everything. Oh ya, I want my money back Howard(please die)
Here is my graph of all the hands I played so far, with comments on my play during the various sessions.
I hope to continue on, perhaps building a roll to tackle NL50 again. However, I am also weary of having that much money on a site that is not guaranteed to give me the money back. One poker roll has been enough for me to lose, especially when it made up a significant amount of money to me. I figured this time around I would only keep around 20 BI for the stake in case the money in seized for whatever reason. NL10 and NL25 should not be a problem for me once I finish making the fine adjustments to my game again.
Is this rake even beatable?by Carthac, February 27
Been playing some micros lately on Lock Poker. Would like to build a roll back from scratch again, but after looking at the amount of rake I pay, I am unsure if it is even possible. Would love some input
Couple of my buddies asked me why i never update my blog anymore. I've always used this blog to brag about my billion dollar months or bitch about how poker is only rigged for me. Since I'm no longer able to do that, I stayed away from updating. Although I've erased most of my ancient blog posts, life was "ok" when I was able to update this blog frequently.
I haven't played poker since September. I've been on tilt/denial in life since black friday so I decided to take a break till Full Tilt situation is sorted. Unfortunately the break has been longer then expected. I'm no longer a professional poker player but a exceptional dog trainer and a Starcraft 2 grand master. One thing I realized from this break is that I'm actually not addicted to poker Although I enjoy not working(kind of), I know that if I stay on this life break, game will pass me by or life will blind me out. So couple days ago, I max shoved some change in bodog in attempt to get my game back in shape.
So far, it's been a deadly struggle to run a decent session. Not only is the stakes 100x lower then what I'm used to, I'm limited to playing 4 tables max and the competition is pathetic. It makes Starcraft2 icon on my desktop look more tempting then the Jack Ace of spade on top right of bodog tables(Blackjack).
For temporary fix, I've had couple of my friends sweat me to help my boredom. Shit got me going. So I'm offering a deal. People frequently asked me if I coach and although it's still a no, I'm offering something similar and better(in terms of price).
I'll be playing all my games 4 Tabling anonymous tables. There's minimal amount of reads in those games so most of my play will consist of what I believe to be the game theory optimal play. You can ask me anything poker related and I will try my best to answer. You can even skip the poker, crack jokes about dumb blondes all session and it's fine with me long as you keep me occupied.
Also since I'm opening some room to be cheated, I won't work with you unless you've been on LP for years or 2p2 reg threads enough to semi-trust your integrity or have mutual friend vouch for you. Trust me, I will find out if I'm cheated and I will kill you. 8)
^last months prior to black friday. i'm sure my hourly would be higher if I ran the HEM back to 1Million hands but I dont have the postgresQL linked to my PC. I played the best poker in my last 1M hands and also made the most in my career. Last 300k hands were my worst run in that span(Brag).
You can leave a msg here or shoot me a PM(2p2 may be quicker since it's linked to my e-mail
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I felt I had to post a semi-meaningful 10k post and not waste it on the Tutz banned thread. Peace ut LP
Oh, and please die Howard
Although I enjoy not working(kind of), I know that if I stay on this life break, game will pass me by or life will blind me out. So couple days ago, I max shoved some change in bodog in attempt to get my game back in shape. 
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