Hi guys i programmed a game and i would like suggestion on how to make it more strategic.
this is a turn based game between white and black. white plays first, but starts with 54$ instead of black's 58$+3 (income when starting his turn).
The objective of the game is completly destroying opponement's wall.
There is 5 unit types:
#1 women (2$). This is what determines the number of people you can make each turns. The turn you make her, shes not active yet. For example if you start your turn with 4 womens, you can make 4 units.
#2 Peasant (4$). This is what determines your income. Every time you begin your turn, you get X$, which is the number of peasants you own.
#3 Wall (1$). This does not require womens to build
#4 Archer (5$). Explained below
#5 warrior (2$): These are what is used to attack. there is 2 attack options:
Fight: All your warriors will sacrifice themself against the wall. for each one of your warriors, one ennemy wall is destroyed, but you loose all of your warriors.
Hit and run: Your warriors will initially be killed by ennemy archers, but the survivors will destroy one wall each and run away. for example, if you have 10 warriors and ennemy has 3 archers, you will loose 3 warriors but you will destroy 7 of ennemy's wall.
When the game starts, everyone starts with 3 paysant, 3 women, and 10 wall.
The problem is that the game lacks strategy. its all about making sure its -EV for the ennemy to attack you by having enough wall/archer and making lots of peasants....
SO the game between good players usually last for a long time until someone clearly has way more peasants and eventually win
Note: i programmed a computer for it... it plays ok. if anyone wants to test it you can pm... however its not really that hard to beat whitout handicaps
Then just as my parents flew to India my brother came to visit me and basically did the same thing for a week (taking him around bangkok then going to Koh Samet.
I basically only put in around 115 hours of poker, mixture of $6.5 and $16 18 mans. Around 15 hours less than I had planned
Hey guys,
So January was my first month played almost entirely at $1/$2, and I managed to achieve some impressive results. After almost 100k hands there I can say that I think I'm a long-term winner there, and have no plans to move down any time soon I was away for 10 days in January, so hopefully I can put in more hands in February and catch up to SNE pace.
This is becoming a pattern... I started January 12+tabling because of the PS Sale, and ended the month with a loss of $200, taking me to break even with RB. I was tired almost always when playing poker and I stopped enjoying it at the end. I shall not multitable, stars are just evil.
I have also bought a 'Secrets of 100% healthy people' book and found out that I have seriously imbalanced blood sugar levels (The symptoms of which are weight gain, waking up tired, being tired in the afternoon and need for caffeine or something sweet after meals).
I will try out the low GL diet recommended in the book, its seems very simple and very realistic. Unfortunately that also means cutting caffeine completely - god help me.
One of the patterns of healthy people was also spirituality (mind over body baby -.-), and this coincidentally intersects what Tommy Angelo was advising for poker players. Apparently the chemical reactions triggered by bad feelings get stored in your brain and recalled when the situation repeats. Makes a lot of sense with when you look at kids not burdened by negative emotions at all and then you look at the angry grandma on the bus - the negative emotional stuff just keeps adding up and often prevents rationality.
So I booked me and my girlfriend for a 5 hour introductory session to meditation next Saturday, should be fun.
Februrary goals:
Go ahead with the low GL diet, Play 4 tables at least 50% of the time, 6 tables the rest and I am allowed to masstable only in last 5 days if my SN will be in trouble. Get some sweat sessions going again. No monetary goals.
Long term goal remains the same: $10k BR by the beginning of September,$20/hour winrate, be physically and emotionally fit to play 7-10 hour sessions with 5-10 minute breaks on a regular basis 4 days per week while studying 3 days per week for 9 hours each day.
Unstructured post today. Turned 21 yesterday, grinded out the last bit of VPP til silverstar, and went on a spiraling downswing. A quick analysis of my losing hands tells me that I am willing to call raises on the flop a bit too easily. Talk about doomswitch :D. I will start over with a clear mind in february. Anyway, graphs:
[x] Make $40 playing SNGs exclusively
[x] More volume - 2 hours a day minimum*
[ ] Place in the money in a large tournament (1000+)
[ ] Win 1 or more live SNGs at the local charity games (130 payout, 30 buyin)
Didn't get a chance to play any of the live SNGs in January because of schedule conflicts, missed the money on a big tournament (2k payout to 1st) by like 5 people or so. I like the volume I've been putting in but I have to put more effort on reads into my sessions and stop making donkey calls when I have a hunch I'm beat.
February goals...
[ ] Build BR to $100.
[ ] Develop higher level of proficiency at PLO by playing PLO almost exclusively.
I'm keeping away from the tournament scene because I feel I play much better in cash game scenarios. A lot of the money I've lost in order to break even has been buyins to SNGs, where I just don't feel comfortable playing marginal hands and somehow always found myself shortstacked. I only lost 1 HU when I made it that far, but I'm definitely sticking to cash.
Swingy redline as usual especially when it comes from nl5 nl10
Started out badly with kinda loose agressive stats until the end where i nittied it up a bit. :/ http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/9696/sanstitrebk.jpg
Like any good rollercoaster, started by jumping up a quick 10k, bad sessions left me at -15k, shot back up to +4k or so and finished off down $2,500 or something silly. So breakeven from October until now it seems. Hopefully the wheels haven't fallen off completely and I can make something happen in the next few months.
Does anyone have any experience with a Camtasia-esque program for Mac OSX, preferably a free one? I'm looking to record my sessions so I can go back and analyze them very easily and a program of this nature will not only allow me to do that, but also to potentially upload them with commentary and hope to get feedback. Thanks.
Pretty cool, didnt grind at all till the 16th, still made it to 3rd place at the sharkscope leaderboard. Also didnt have any losing sessions which is pretty kewl!
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I was away for 10 days in January, so hopefully I can put in more hands in February and catch up to SNE pace.
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