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I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI

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Post by averageRoyalty »

throw-10-8 wrote: post #131
alansammarone wrote: post #129

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after reading so many people argue about this over the last few years (and having had my own experience - I've been writing software professionally for close to 15 years), I've come to believe people are talking past each other because different people enjoy or excel at different aspects of coding. at the very least, there's people who enjoy the experience of hand-crafting software - typing, being "in the zone", thin…

took me a week to build a poker bot in 2006 that earned me $1000 a week during college, and that was self imposed because I didn't want to raise any flags. It was based on a world of warcraft bot that I modified, and I learned a lot during the process. What you call wasted mechanical work I call the foundations of a career that changed my life. Take away the AI and this guy has nothing but an idea. An old idea that h…

Sorry, I'm pretty sure you didn't read the article. OP didn't build a poker bot, you seem to have just seen the title and assumed.

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Post by teapot7 »

mattmaroon wrote: post #114
JohnMakin wrote: post #23

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Not really. Maybe in very specific applications of limit (fixed bet size) hold'em, but no limit texas hold'em, the most popular variant online, is very much unsolved, especially in multi-way pots. There are simply too many variables and strategies involved to calculate quickly enough on the fly. For games like omaha, which uses 4 hole cards, this is even harder. Due to advancement of theory and study and popularity o…

I don’t believe it. There are just as many variables involved in writing a short story. Anyone who thinks machine learning can’t conquer poker is fooling themselves. I used to have bots collect every hand played on major poker sites in the early aughts so I’m sure there’s infinite training data. And if it can be done we know there’s sufficient financial incentive. So I (former long time professional poker player) fee…

> I don’t believe it. There are just as many variables involved in writing a short story.

Surely you're not implying that writing a good short story is a solved problem for computers?

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Post by yunwal »

noitpmeder wrote: post #102
yunwal wrote: post #42

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The bot would realistically be GPT interacting with the web application and calling out to a poker engine for any calculations/decisions.

But .. what .. why?? Sure you could use an AI agent to write that code, but it wouldn't actually being that AI agent in the hot loop constantly coordinating your UI interactions with the poker engine... Comments like these make me feel a bit safer from AI in my engineering job. People think it's a perfect no brainer fit for so many inane situations.

You just made up a whole different thing. Nobody is talking about writing code with an AI here, they’re talking about using it to interact with a poker website.

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Post by maest »

vmg12 wrote: post #76
maest wrote: post #72

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Doesn't mean bots aren't widespread. It just means you're better than the breakeven player.

I'm a software engineer with 10+ years of experience. I'm also a poker player that has a very deep understanding of the game. Writing a poker bot that can beat the game is absolutely not trivial. There are "solvers" that use counterfactual regret minimization to solve a constrained version of the game for specific scenarios. These are useful for understanding the principles of the game but they are not the cheat shee…

That's cool, but I'm not sure why you replied to my comment

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Post by rhubarbtree »

reillychase wrote: post #138
rhubarbtree wrote: post #120

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Played a random game the other day and I love it! What’s the best way to learn and get involved? I just want to play socially, happy to lose a little money each time as the cost of fun.

I like reading BlackRain79 and watching his YouTube videos. Nothing beats experience though. Start playing without money for a long time first to learn the rules of the game. I actually downloaded a Game Boy emulator for iOS and the ROM for GBA World Poker Tour (2005). After playing that for a long time I finally got the basics like muscle memory of knowing what hand beats what and what possible combinations could be…

Thanks. BlackRain79 looks good. I’ve not found a decent app for playing online with a good UX yet.
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