[e-gold-list] Re: A nonhuman player snags 70g of e-gold at TGC!

2003-03-23 Thread jpm
So Edwin! What do you think of my 5gram offer to run the bot for me ??? Too low? JP May life is a -- --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your

[e-gold-list] Re: A nonhuman player snags 70g of e-gold at TGC!

2003-03-22 Thread Edwin Woudt
Citeren SnowDog [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well... it's still queens or better, though they did implement some sort of delay preventing a bot from playing too many hands too fast. They also fail to mention that I also lost money from time to time, but overall the bot did indeed win. There's

[e-gold-list] Re: A nonhuman player snags 70g of e-gold at TGC!

2003-03-22 Thread Edwin Woudt
That is fantastic! How many hands did you play, what was the total wager, what was the total won or lost at the end, and what was the worst draw down? I have logs of 170,932 hands. I did play a few more while testing, but that's one or two thousand at most I think. The results were:

[e-gold-list] Re: A nonhuman player snags 70g of e-gold at TGC!

2003-03-22 Thread SnowDog
What I did was for every possible initial hand, determine the best strategy by adding up the payouts for all possible continuations and choosing the strategy with the best average payout. This took quite a lot of computer time (about 120 hours on a pretty fast machine), but in the end I ended

[e-gold-list] Re: A nonhuman player snags 70g of e-gold at TGC!

2003-03-21 Thread Edwin Woudt
I think it's _really-cool_ of TGC to allow robots, but apparently 'bots occasionally exploit a few little vulnerabilities. I strongly suspect the original motivation for running it is that beautiful 10oz bar, since 'bots play WAY more hands than a human.

[e-gold-list] Re: A nonhuman player snags 70g of e-gold at TGC!

2003-03-21 Thread James M. Ray
At 1:01 AM +0100 3/22/03, Edwin Woudt wrote: ... Well... it's still queens or better, though they did implement some sort of delay preventing a bot from playing too many hands too fast. They also fail to mention that I also lost money from time to time, but overall the bot did indeed win. I

[e-gold-list] Re: A nonhuman player snags 70g of e-gold at TGC!

2003-03-21 Thread SnowDog
Well... it's still queens or better, though they did implement some sort of delay preventing a bot from playing too many hands too fast. They also fail to mention that I also lost money from time to time, but overall the bot did indeed win. There's no reason a bot should win. Even their

[e-gold-list] Re: A nonhuman player snags 70g of e-gold at TGC!

2003-03-21 Thread jpm
I think it's _really-cool_ of TGC to allow robots, but apparently 'bots occasionally exploit a few little vulnerabilities. I strongly suspect the original motivation for running it is that beautiful 10oz bar, since 'bots play WAY more hands than a human. http://www.thegoldcasino.com/newsroom/