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A secret poker game you can play on the subway

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Re: A secret poker game you can play on the subway

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thret wrote: post #92
ZoomZoomZoom wrote: post #20

The most obvious issues with this is that the game boils down to predicting passenger patterns, but you're still just comparing two RNGs, which is one of the worst kinds of games. I also don't think this can be called Poker, really. Poker is an imperfect information game, where your hand tells you some information about your opponents' hands. It would be interesting to read HN's ideas on how you can simulate the shar…

Poker is not a card game, it's a betting game with imperfect information. This has no betting round so it is not poker. You can fix this by allowing each stop to be a round of betting.

The betting aspect features in the short mockumentary film from which this comes: Tube Poker (2005) by Simon Levene.

- https://www.simonlevene.com/portfolio/tube-poker

- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818537/

Re: A secret poker game you can play on the subway

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Post by oktcho »

scrozier wrote: post #79
tetris11 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can definitely select a new hand each station by making inappropriate gestures or sounds.

I was waiting for the author to discuss actual strategies, like subtly herding new passengers toward a seat, sitting in your own row so you can get up when the right person comes along and graciously offer them your seat, saying "I think there's some spilled Sprite there" if the wrong person attempts to sit down (only if there are plenty of seats left, of course), etc. Other ideas?

Hi, OP here. I love your suggestions, and I love the way HN comments turn. I play this for fun and never really thought of creative strategies like yours, but they are great ! I will definitely use them next time to win with my son :)

Re: A secret poker game you can play on the subway

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Post by oktcho »

lozf wrote: post #111
thret wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Poker is not a card game, it's a betting game with imperfect information. This has no betting round so it is not poker. You can fix this by allowing each stop to be a round of betting.

The betting aspect features in the short mockumentary film from which this comes: Tube Poker (2005) by Simon Levene. - https://www.simonlevene.com/portfolio/tube-poker - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818537/

Oh that's where it comes from ! I couldn't find it, thank you so much ! I will edit my article with the link.

Re: A secret poker game you can play on the subway

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Aransentin wrote: post #9

This article has a strong ChatGPT smell. Things like "in the world of", "let's dive into", the bullet points, "conclusion" section, etc. Anyone else have the same feeling?

I wrote the article in a much simpler and "french to english" way, and asked the LLM to format it in a better english style. Looking at these comments I don't think I'll do it again. But it's also the only article that made so many reads and comments. What should I conclude ?
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