Poker Weekend
This last weekend I played a lot of poker. Friday night I went to a co-worker's place and played in a weekly game, then Saturday (after comics and cleaning) I went to work to play poker with a number of people who will be going to Vegas soon for a trade show. In addition to all that, I picked up an electronic poker game last week and over the weekend I played something like 1,600 hands. I even played in the simulated 2004 World Poker Championship and came in 11th out of about 2,600 participants. That was cool.
Sunday I went to Liz and Madalyn's for a "Free Martha" party. It was a goofy theme, but we had a good time chatting and playing with Mike and Sharon's kids. Right after that I headed over to Chinook's for Hays' birthday dinner. That, too, was fun. A bit low key, but fun.
The last couple of days have been busy with meetings and trying to make progress on a new game. It's been fun, but it's very behind schedule. It's mostly off my plate for a couple of weeks now, so others have to worry about it more than I for the moment.
That's about all for now. I'm going to get a good night's rest now.
posted by Jon @ Wednesday, March 09, 2005
6 comments
6 Comments:
Darn it, the best I've done in the 2004 tourney is 14th place. You are now officially my poker nemesis, my secret dream to humiliate you in heads-up play for the top prize.
Glenn, it may be the difference of what games we're using, too. I have one called "DD Tournament Poker 2005" the Collector's Edition; no limit Texas Hold'em. It was made by Eagle Games. I've no idea how the artificial intelligences work in these things, but I imagine they vary from game to game.
Glad to hear you've been playing, too. It's surprisingly fun when money isn't actually involved.
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
"It's surprisingly fun when money isn't actually involved."Hear, hear.
I like it with money too, just as long as the sums are modest. ($5 or $10 buy-in). More than that, and people are likely to get unpleasant about the whole thing.
DD Tournament Poker is in fact the same game I play. It's still not as good as playing against real people, but it's good enough to help me sharpen my skills as general preparation toward humiliating any poker nemesis I might happen to have.
I believe a pokerbot script has been written such that you can program it with your own betting algorithm and let your bot play others online. Glenn, you might find this a good way to test your betting method with lots of games at once. Nothing like increasing your sample size to hone your methods.
Post a Comment
<< Home