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Re: Welcome and Hello

2023-11-09T20:14:19+00:00

Hello,

I'm a poker enthusiast and C++ programmer. I did a poker bot too that you can challenge here: https://gtoking.com

Statistics: Posted by GtoKing — Thu Nov 09, 2023 8:14 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2022-02-23T13:58:31+00:00

Hello everyone. Hope that I will be able to learn something new here

Statistics: Posted by xavier3 — Wed Feb 23, 2022 1:58 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2021-12-26T17:19:50+00:00

Hi everyone!

I was a Poker enthusiast quite a while ago when I was still studying at university. Since I have a soft spot for mathematics and the game, I learned programming - (first java and then c++) to automate the Poker and fill the student's pocket a bit.
I have been running a screen scaping bot playing the (at that time) popular short stack strategy, which was easy to programm and was quite succesful until poker sites started to raiesd the minimum buy-in, which then required a more solid strategy than just a bunch of simple rules and a connection to a tracking software. At that point, I stopped developing, and as I graduated, I quit Poker and the focus shifted to other things.

However, my interest in AI never really died and with the prospect of more covid lock downs and winter ahead, i have decided to revive the project of a poker bot - for now, not for playing online, but more as a personal challenge.

I habe been reading this forum for quite some time and decided to sign up and contribute.
Looking forward to get in touch with you!

Thanks,
AceOfSpades

Statistics: Posted by AceOfSpades — Sun Dec 26, 2021 5:19 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2021-03-14T23:54:25+00:00

Hi everyone,

I have a few years experience in C# and now started learning C and C++.

A long time ago I played very intensive on the micro stakes for a year or so.
Only slow deep stack tournaments. But it was becoming too exhausting for me.

I'm generally interested in AI, but also in other areas.
Mainly I'm here to learn, but when I can help, I try to answer if I have the knowledge.

Statistics: Posted by 444F4B — Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:54 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2019-05-11T15:43:01+00:00

vulpenae wrote:

Thank you, spears. Not sure if I would have persistence to find a solution without your post and make a happy career in poker software field.

Is there a place on this forum to make a blog? I would like to tell some stories and ideas. I'm not going to share secrets that make big money in 2019, but there is plenty of older fun stuff. My goal is to connect to other poker AI professionals out there.

Another satisfied customer!

I'd love to read your stories and ideas. Just put them here in Miscellaneous.

Statistics: Posted by spears — Sat May 11, 2019 3:43 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2019-05-09T08:44:19+00:00

I'm coming back to this forum.

In early 2013 I was trying to make a Nash equilibrium calculator for Holdem and was stuck. I registered at pokerai.org and asked a question
http://poker-ai.org/archive/www.pokerai ... f=3&t=4814

spears helpfully gave me a link to a working external sampling implementation from amax. From there, I was able to make a working holdem flop solver. Since there were no public products available at that time, and high-stakes were still active, I was able to sell it (as a service) to a group of highest-stakes online players for $150k over 1.5 years. Since then, I was developing software for poker and made >1M dollars. Before that I was playing online poker professionally myself with mediocre results.

Thank you, spears. Not sure if I would have persistence to find a solution without your post and make a happy career in poker software field.

Is there a place on this forum to make a blog? I would like to tell some stories and ideas. I'm not going to share secrets that make big money in 2019, but there is plenty of older fun stuff. My goal is to connect to other poker AI professionals out there.

Statistics: Posted by vulpenae — Thu May 09, 2019 8:44 am

Re: Welcome and Hello

2019-04-14T08:00:41+00:00

Hi. i'm a newb at all things AI. I've played poker for years and I'm interested to learn more about how programming can be used to improve understanding of the game.

Statistics: Posted by level7Fish — Sun Apr 14, 2019 8:00 am

Re: Welcome and Hello

2018-04-22T01:45:07+00:00

spears wrote:

Chowzor wrote:

Are there any fundamental, or core papers anyone would recommend I read first?

viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2731

viewforum.php?f=25 Last 3 entries

Thanks. It hurts a little bit given I did my MSc. in Geophysics at U of A, and didn't take the opportunity to get into this community.

Statistics: Posted by Chowzor — Sun Apr 22, 2018 1:45 am

Re: Welcome and Hello

2018-04-21T21:19:56+00:00

Chowzor wrote:

Are there any fundamental, or core papers anyone would recommend I read first?

viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2731

viewforum.php?f=25 Last 3 entries

Statistics: Posted by spears — Sat Apr 21, 2018 9:19 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2018-04-21T19:14:47+00:00

Hey everyone!

I have been playing poker on and off, but never got that great at it. I started my career as a Geophysicst, where the optimization methods were very similar to machine learning methods. I was since laid off, and went back to school for computer science. I have recently fallen back in love with poker, and I see a lot of application for using AI and data mining to improve strategies.

Long and the short of it I need to build a personal project to work in Machine Learning and I think building a simple, robust AI poker bot would be a great start.

Are there any fundamental, or core papers anyone would recommend I read first? I have a lot of experience using gradient based decent algos, like Gauss-Newton, but I am not sure if it is is applicable yet. I am such a noob I am not sure was is the standard practice

Statistics: Posted by Chowzor — Sat Apr 21, 2018 7:14 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2017-09-15T01:48:21+00:00

Hello guys!I'm Italian Poker player, I'm trying to discover this business I hope to find more information!Bye!

Statistics: Posted by somethinglikethis — Fri Sep 15, 2017 1:48 am

Re: Welcome and Hello

2017-07-02T18:43:34+00:00

Greetings! I've been lurking for quite some time and thought I would finally say hello. I'm fascinated with the idea of making a poker bot. It's lots of different problems to figure out across several disciplines and I love learning new things. At first I'm just working on a helper/adviser for nl holdem because it seems like the quickest way to being profitable.

I've already learned so much from these forums and I hope to be able to contribute at some point as well.

Statistics: Posted by Peacock — Sun Jul 02, 2017 6:43 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2017-06-11T12:38:26+00:00

Hello,
as a Computer Engineer, I'm interested in Machine Learning and AI. I started playing Poker this year, so I don't have the experience needed to be a good (maybe neither average) player, but I hope to improve my skills.

I started thinking about an helper-bot. This means it reads the game state from the interface and runs its own algorithms but doesn't act, just shows the data and predicted best move in the screen; I then decide what to do, if following blindly the strategy or trying something different. This is mainly for security reasons and testing.
I'm writing right now the interface that reads all the game state from the table (position of the player, money, action etc. using OCR and computer vision). Seems to work quite well, but that is the easy part, the core will be tougher also because I'm not expert in the actual game so it's difficult to implement the strategies.

Cheers

Statistics: Posted by /dev/null — Sun Jun 11, 2017 12:38 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2017-05-26T07:49:39+00:00

jackrabbit wrote:

Hoping to be able to contribute a bit to the livelyness of the site also

We could do with some action, even from troublemakers. Welcome

Statistics: Posted by spears — Fri May 26, 2017 7:49 am

Re: Welcome and Hello

2017-05-25T18:53:16+00:00

Hello everyone,

Like the rest of you, I was a poker player for quite some time and the allure of automation was always there. My interest is mostly in shortstack games and so far I've had very good results with my first bot.

I really like the idea of having an open-ish community where strategy ideas can be discusses & shared. Hoping to be able to contribute a bit to the livelyness of the site also

cheers

Statistics: Posted by jackrabbit — Thu May 25, 2017 6:53 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2017-05-23T20:54:37+00:00

Hi, I've played poker for many years and have just finished my masters degree in cybernetics. I have been writing different programs for tool assistance for poker. For example I've written some software that allows a player to access ICM calculations easily when playing tournaments/sngs.

I've now just written my screenscraper using OCR to start botting some 6max cashgames, where I'm making a rule based bot with a static strategy. I played many hands the way my bot is going to play and I believe that 5bb+/100 is very achievable at NL10. It will have unlimited possibilities for multi-tabling.

If anyone have some tips for me I would appreciate it!

Statistics: Posted by Cyberkid — Tue May 23, 2017 8:54 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2015-10-05T20:50:38+00:00

Hello,

I participate in the NL HU competition at http://theaigames.com/competitions/texas-hold-em, player name "DaFish". I am a professional programmer with general interest in algorithms and with experience from AI competitions and other games like chess programming. I don't play poker myself, although I love to watch the WSOP Main Event and listen to Norman Chad.

When reading about the current state of the art in poker AI research I struggled to understand the finer details of CFRM (which I think is very elegant) and found many answers on this forum. I have just started the computation of my CFRM model and hope it is going to generate a plausible strategy before the competition ends

Statistics: Posted by eiisolver — Mon Oct 05, 2015 8:50 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2015-10-05T06:54:45+00:00

Hello everyone,

Have been going back and forth in this forum for around 2-3 years and only now noticed this thread. Makes me wonder how many worthwhile threads I've missed this way...

Shortly about me. I've been working on my setup for 2-3 years now and have a rather fragile setup working more or less. Went quite allin on the subject - quit my jobs, dropped other projects, discontinued my academic career to develop a slightly better AI. Might sound like a lot, but nothing beats the feeling when you accomplish smth that seemed impossible. Also, I find the applications of poker-solving methods outside poker quite promising so just working on the algos is quite the pleasure.

I wouldn't consider myself a huge contributor, but will try to continue asking/ answering questions where I can. Wouldn't mind joining a more intense day-to-day chat with people of similar interest/ achievements. Def not going to strip the pleasure of overcoming initial failures by answering dumb newbie questions. Ironically, I will continue to post my dumb questions

Statistics: Posted by DreamInBinary — Mon Oct 05, 2015 6:54 am

Hello world

2015-10-05T00:23:13+00:00

Hi guys, I am patacca from Italy.
I have a pretty solid background in MMORPG bot/cheat development and two weeks ago I decided to start working on a pokerstars bot. It's an idea that I had in mind for the last year and now I finally decided to take a shot.
I am currently reversing the network protocol and looking for all the info about the detection techniques the poker room use I can find.
My hope is to create an undetectable working bot that can crush microstakes with +10bb/100 and then start heavy development on the AI side, I think a lot of improvement can be done (and also a lot of money).

Hopefully I will contribute to this community.

P.S. What are the requirements to access the privates section?

Statistics: Posted by patacca — Mon Oct 05, 2015 12:23 am

Re: Welcome and Hello

2015-03-01T11:17:51+00:00

Heyho,

I'm a finance student and amateur poker player. I recently started coding in Java and decided to work on an Omaha bot. The parsing/scraping part is already done. Also, the evaluation algo is finished - based on Cactus Kev I built a 9-Card-Omaha Lookup table. For simulation methods I use a long to represent already used cards (shuffling the deck before had less performance for me). Also I am able to work with ranges. Basically I'm just using LUT in the form of hashmaps all the way for everything which makes this quite memory intensive. Right now I am starting to look on general game logic for my bot, however at first I wont make the bot act itself as its just too risky (will think about stealth at the end). Looking forward to this project and to discuss with you guys.

Statistics: Posted by TschavaTschigger — Sun Mar 01, 2015 11:17 am

Re: Welcome and Hello

2014-10-20T22:51:40+00:00

hi again, "testacc" here from the old forum

started botting on UB back in the days when it still existed - micro stakes.
now after a bit of a break I moved on to PS. bigger challenge to integrate, but managed to grow up my bot and go higher stakes.

developing in C#, and more recently, Scala (a JVM-based language). I got interested in Scala mainly to be able to quickly experiment with more complex opponent models (it allows a more functional programming style).

cheers,
Chris

Statistics: Posted by testacc — Mon Oct 20, 2014 10:51 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2014-08-12T18:33:06+00:00

Hi everyone

I have been botting on and off for about 2 years. Started with shanky and now I'm all about OH. I wish I had made the move to oPPL and OH sooner. I very recently started to learn C++ and already day dreaming about all the botting possibilities

I am just going into my last year of a pharmacy degree and so it is really only this time of year where I have a bit of spare time to work on my bot/profile, which is a SH FL As that's by my favourite hold'em format to play manually.

I'm definitely not in it for the money as the odd £20 I withdraw from Poker sites probably wouldn't keep me in socks, but it is still nice to know you are beating the game. At this point it is really more about learning to program, building something I am proud to watch play and chatting with people who enjoy it as much as me.

Statistics: Posted by Campbell22 — Tue Aug 12, 2014 6:33 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2014-08-08T12:14:08+00:00

Hi there,

been lurking for a while.
Not a programmer at all but I'd love to learn it solely for botting one day if I find the time and ain't too dumb for it ..

Greetings

Statistics: Posted by psyclone — Fri Aug 08, 2014 12:14 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2014-08-05T00:10:01+00:00

Hello! Nice to find a community of people who share my interest in AI and poker! Looking forward to sharing what I know and maybe learning a thing or two as well.

Sailor.

Statistics: Posted by Sailor Roberts — Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:10 am

Re: Welcome and Hello

2014-08-04T21:05:57+00:00

Hi everyone,

I'm writer, hacker, and developer (from Asm to Python, Java, Clojure etc). I worked really hard for many companies for a long time, and now I took a break. And I decided to work on HI-skilled stuff, like trading, betting, and poker. These areas are so interested for me.

I hope one day my poker bot will win satellite on poker stars for PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Crazy dream )

Statistics: Posted by Dowakin — Mon Aug 04, 2014 9:05 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2014-08-04T18:17:48+00:00

Ok just recreating my account after the move.

Still the same old quite time here.

Statistics: Posted by want2learn — Mon Aug 04, 2014 6:17 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2014-07-08T23:48:25+00:00

Hi All!

I'm an amateur poker player with expertise in computer science and mathematics. I'm working on writing a bot with Java using JNA. I'm currently stuck on parsing the board. Not sure if I should take the OCR route or the dll injection route. I'm hoping to learn a lot from you guys about botting and AI in general and hopefully get a nice bot up and running.

Statistics: Posted by golfguy37 — Tue Jul 08, 2014 11:48 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2014-01-24T19:33:55+00:00

Hi! I'm new to this forum, however I've read a lot about poker ai.

I've developed (almost working) API interface to FTP. See bokerpot.com. link contains working demo version with C# sample. It uses dll injection to hook gameplay/give commands. Not too stealth method yet, but compression/encryption would help.

I'd like to partnership with somebody possessing good AI to run this stuff online.

Also I'm trying to get into the math. Not too much success as for now. It's 100 times harder than poker room integration I've developed.

My current AI approach of choice is MCTS with opponent modeling for 6 or 9 max cash NL.

Planning to implement something like k-models clustering of players (see http://www.ai.rug.nl/~mwiering/Tom_van_ ... Thesis.pdf),
plus use TILDE to learn opp model decision tree (see http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/m-ponse ... DTGT10.pdf)

Also I've considered MCCFR techniques to find Nash approximation (e.g. https://github.com/rggibson/open-pure-cfr). But it does not learn opponents and could be done (in good approximation) for HU only (if not using 1000 GPU cluster or something like this)

So I think MCTS+opp.modelling is more promising.

I'd be happy to hear from somebody if she tried methods mentioned above and to which success.

Statistics: Posted by vpasha40 — Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:33 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2014-01-19T00:11:10+00:00

Hi

I have a PhD in Computer Science and a background in Software Development.

Currently implementing Poker AI algorithms in Scala, reading a lot of GTO literature... and looking at the various hand evaluator source out there.

Thanks!

Statistics: Posted by computation — Sun Jan 19, 2014 12:11 am

Re: Welcome and Hello

2014-01-14T01:49:04+00:00

Quick HI !

I'm from Poland and just beginning in poker.
Have few question, like for me specialist one so decide to register and try to find answer

Statistics: Posted by dyloz — Tue Jan 14, 2014 1:49 am

Re: Welcome and Hello

2014-01-10T18:16:32+00:00

Hi !
I'm a Java programmer surrounded by pretty high level poker players. My only choice to survive was to find it interesting, so did I!

* Something like two years back, I decided to code a bot framework in Java ignoring AI in the first time. To avoid most stealth problems I decided not to make it act but just display an advice.
It scrapes ok with fixed sized windows and displays in a HUD following the windows positions.
I decided to abandon this project as I don't want to deal with my country's laws and being banned from the only two interesting rooms in there.

* I also programmed some minor stuff :
- a simple UI to have fast odds
- an UI ICM (normal and MC) program that can compute for up to 170 stack sizes
- I used my bot framework to begin an HUD helper that I'd like to commercialize but this project is sleeping for now.

All my UIs are programmed using JavaFX (yes...).

* Recently I decided to program my Nash equilibrium engine. I have it working (it's CSCFRM) with any game (properly) implementing an interface like this :
interface Game {
void chosePlayer(PlayerAction action);

void choseNature(NatureAction action);

void back();

Node getCurrentNode();
}

Im focused on using it to experiment some research-oriented concepts I have, mainly about SNG.

Im not really interested in opponent modeling or cash-game for now, I already have plans for ten full-time jobs in my free-time exploring no-memory AIs

* I also had my OFC (open face chinese poker) time... Don't hesitate to talk to me about it !

I stalk this forum for monthes (don't remember when I started reading the old forum) and I'm really grateful to all its contributors. I mean it ! I could have played bridge without pokerAI

Oh i didn't say it but I'm mainly (only) interested in NLHE (and OFC ).

Cheers !

EDIT : forgot to apologize for my english in this and all my future posts !

Statistics: Posted by Pitt — Fri Jan 10, 2014 6:16 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-12-08T21:17:31+00:00

Hello everyone,

for the past 3 years, I worked as a PHP developer, but still I always saw myself as more of a low level guy. Recently I became interested in AI and mathematical optimization. Being a passionate poker player, I decided to try and write an AI for poker - maybe I can even improve my poker game in the process. At this point I'm in it for the fun of it and I don't necessarily plan on running a bot at a real poker room. However, my academic background is in IT security and I have experience in ASM, Software Exploitation, Reverse Engineering and Computer Forensics, so this should come in handy if I ever decide I need to interface my AI with a poker room (even though it seems that most people use OCR rather than reading the data directly from memory - I'd rather try the latter because I love hacks like that ).

I have read many of the basic papers and some of the recent ones. Right now I want to focus on building a framework with general useful poker stuff and implementing an equilibrium solving algorithm. My language of choice is C++.

I'm looking forward to interesting discussions. See you around

Statistics: Posted by ConvexPolytope — Sun Dec 08, 2013 9:17 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-12-02T15:27:11+00:00

Hi there. I'm currently implementing CFRM in java, mainly because it's an interesting thing to be doing. I think I've got it working but it's (a) slow and (b) impossible for me to confirm it's actually converging. I've been a mainly java programmer for 15 or so years, but in the realm of web development etc, not HPC or computer science.

I'm hoping to address both of the issues aboveand also contribute something back along the way.

Back in the (g)olden days I played a /lot/ of 200nl 6max online, but stopped when the fish left. I also wanted my life back

Statistics: Posted by fraction — Mon Dec 02, 2013 3:27 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-12-02T10:59:42+00:00

Hi, we are a team of two people, a very experienced poker player and a world class physicist specialized in stochastic and montecarlo simulations and all that jazz.
We are working on an AI for poker.
Going to post some questions on botting in the right section as soon as we find it, should we actually find it, lol

In the meanwhile, we thought we'd say hello! Hoping to find collaborative and smart people here (which we're pretty sure will do).

Statistics: Posted by fisherking — Mon Dec 02, 2013 10:59 am

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-10-15T23:18:31+00:00

Hi,

I'm a (mainly) Java/Groovy developer that recently got interested in Poker AI as a means to learn different stuff, but if I can make some cash in the process, that would be great! But I'm not really a poker player (at least for now )

Right now I'm focusing on creating an ANN Bot (a bot that uses ANNs to determine its actions rather then to model opponents. Is there a better name for that?). Already have something that beats OpenTestBed's SimpleBot in a Limit HU, but still have a long way to go to be able to play online.

-Corintio

Statistics: Posted by corintio — Tue Oct 15, 2013 11:18 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-09-11T10:10:37+00:00

Hi all,

Sorry I have posted before I introduce myself...

I was already present on the old forum (a bit)....

I have stopped bot coding to study for a big certification (more then 1year) and now I'm back to try to "finish" the coding of my bot...

My idea will be to try implement CFRM for 2 players (already working for Kuhn)....

See U on the forum.

MrNice

Statistics: Posted by MrNice — Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:10 am

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-09-09T12:15:10+00:00

Hi all,

I'm learning information technology and i like programming. Some times i play poker. Once i think "Wow, it could be awesome make a poker bot that play for me", so i search on google about poker bot, and i found this site.

After reading some threads in this forum, i think that i need a lot of skills to make a poker bot, so i hope i can get what i need.

-frenk-

Statistics: Posted by frenk — Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:15 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-08-14T18:55:12+00:00

Hiho from Austria,

I've been quite active about 3 or so years ago. Same supersonic as in the old forums.
I used to concentrate on SNGs, but with a focus on the early stages of the game.

Made some decent money for a while, but things have become more difficult after about one year.

Have since put my activities to sleep, as having the machines run and loose money got up to me and did not let me sleep very well anymore.

I've recently seen VirtualBox and ReactOS getting more mature. Thinking about a comeback with those two (RDP, ...) and an improved approach...

Cheers, supersonic.

Statistics: Posted by supersonic — Wed Aug 14, 2013 6:55 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-08-05T12:06:54+00:00

@AiWins There are a few people who will rent out their AI to you if you want to use that. Look in Marketplace

Statistics: Posted by spears — Mon Aug 05, 2013 12:06 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-08-03T21:47:52+00:00

"48 69"
("Hi")

I am a Highschool student yet, I am going to study Computer Science and have a bit of programming experience.
I'm quite retarded in both english and CS, I will not be of much use there, rather, Im looking to learn. I find it hard and kind of dull to read academic papers (not because I am not interested in the subject, but because whenever I don't understand something, I have to skip it, and I lose the flow) my favourite reads are Source Codes and the old AI wiki.
I think I can be of some help for those interested in using their bots online or datamining, I have a lot of experience in automation and screen detection. I have programmed some bots for videogames in the past, these presented a much bigger challenge than what a poker bot would, specifically; 3d mapping, anti bot tests (one of the games I botted on had a wide array of random events that sometimes popped up that were designed to be hard for bots to do but easy for humans), and human-like mouse movement/typing, etc. The game was RuneScape, if anyone has any interest in the source code and the solutions to the problems I faced, pm me and I'll gladly send you my libraries.
I always used screen reading for my solutions as it provides a much more realistic and applicable challenge than memory reading or injection, it also has much less dependencies.
I was thinking of providing source code for a human like program that reads the tables and acts accordingly, although it's considerably easier than building an AI, I believe most experts can be clueless regarding humanlike automation.
Perhaps that would invite some reciprocation.

Statistics: Posted by AiWins — Sat Aug 03, 2013 9:47 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-07-13T09:10:51+00:00

Hello!

I’m developing a Holdem bot written in C#. It’s still a long way from where it needs to be in order to make money. But I’m working hard and with a little help from you guys, one day…

Statistics: Posted by Seikez — Sat Jul 13, 2013 9:10 am

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-07-03T21:28:49+00:00

Hi all,

I'm a computer science student, who used to play poker professionally. I'm still a pretty inexperienced programmer, but I managed to write a HUNL push-fold solver using fictitious play in Java. Next I'm trying to implement it through CFRM, then I plan to slowly expand it.

Statistics: Posted by MrBaggins — Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:28 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-07-03T09:39:14+00:00

Hey guys,

I somewhat missed this thread when I registered..

Hi everyone!

I came across the old pokerai.org site right after I got banned on stars, several years ago. But shelved poker botting for a while, just getting back into it again, now.

I'm a programmer. I like automating things.

Statistics: Posted by MrBrown — Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:39 am

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-06-30T21:10:23+00:00

Hello,

I'm writing a nash solver in order to improve my own game.

Statistics: Posted by Isildur11 — Sun Jun 30, 2013 9:10 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-06-18T14:39:16+00:00

Yea, C is a little faster. Depends on what you are planning to do. If you want the absolute maximum speed, use C or C++ but for everything I have done so far Java was fast enough, the difference between C++ and Java isnt that huge anymore.

Statistics: Posted by HontoNiBaka — Tue Jun 18, 2013 2:39 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-06-04T19:06:56+00:00

luxbock wrote:

nemesis17 wrote:

Hi I write most of my code in Clojure. I use it since I am very familiar with Lisp languages. It is great for rapid prototyping but not ideal if you need raw speed, though it can get close to Java if you profile the code and tweak it with type hints, etc.

I was planning on writing a wrapper for one of the Java hand evaluators that are listed here. This shouldn't get me that much of a speed penalty, right? At the moment I'm considering between the spears2p2 and stevebrecher versions, and I'm trying to find out which one is best optimized for range vs. range type of calculations. Any suggestions?

I may be wrong but Java/Clojure are not the best tools for the raw speed you need for the equity calculations. You are better off using C/C++ and write the higher level code in Java/Clojure.

Statistics: Posted by nemesis17 — Tue Jun 04, 2013 7:06 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-06-03T17:45:04+00:00

drunkandrich wrote:

I'm not really all that rich or drunk but I suspected that screen name on one poker site to be a bot so it's the first thing that came to mind.

Subtle denouncement

Statistics: Posted by LOLWorld — Mon Jun 03, 2013 5:45 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-06-03T15:58:25+00:00

Hi. I'm a long time poker player and added programming as a hobby about a year and a half ago. Naturally I'm mostly applying it to poker. So far I've created some nice limit holdem ai based on the UofA papers and am now working on NL as well as continuing to improve my hand abstraction schemes.

I'm not really all that rich or drunk but I suspected that screen name on one poker site to be a bot so it's the first thing that came to mind.

Statistics: Posted by drunkandrich — Mon Jun 03, 2013 3:58 pm

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-05-24T11:14:45+00:00

nemesis17 wrote:

Statistics: Posted by luxbock — Fri May 24, 2013 11:14 am

Re: Welcome and Hello

2013-05-20T22:56:48+00:00

luxbock wrote:

Hey,

I'm a high-stakes NLHE HU specialist who used to be active in the HS forums on 2p2 a while ago, but have since stopped posting. I'm still very eager to study the game, and I've made use of game theory in the past to improve my own game. I've recently got back into programming (studying Clojure atm), which I was dabbling into a little bit during my teenage years, and so the natural place to apply this interest is with something I am already passionate about. I'm not so much interested in making bots, as I'm sure that would be way too much work for me, but I would like to develop skills to be able to better analyze the game on my own, and to meet people who share similar interests as I do.

Statistics: Posted by nemesis17 — Mon May 20, 2013 10:56 pm