See, this. The reality is the opposite. For anyone below $100 spins (and maybe even there), they're likely better off completely ignoring GTO lest it give you stupid ideas, and instead focus on extracting value.

Now, if you're playing in 5reg 6-max hyper sngs, things may be quite different. But that's not where the money is.

That is not to say there is no value in GTO solvers, because there absolutely is.

From what I gathered - GTO is only for pro vs. pro - early SNG stuff. Like should I raise 2.6BB from the hijack (could be any position but later seems more GTO centric), or 2.2BB - given my cards and who is sitting in button and the blinds. Which literally I didn't even think mattered.

The fact that margins are so thin now that apparently that stuff does matter is why I was scared off. Maybe I interpreted it all wrong.

I remember this one SNG reg who used to always raise 2.1 BB, back when everyone raised 3BB or 2.5BB. It pissed me off so much, I always played back at him throughout the hand. I still don't know if it even bothered him. But on some level I knew this 2.1BB stuff was exploiting me and I wasn't going to let it stand.

That's just early game which is like 10% of your ROI (ballpark). Eastbay and some other early STTF regs I can't remember now solved all the late game stuff (which is what really matters) with ICM a long time ago.

I saw the games go from $215s being easily profitable (on party) to $16s being kinda tough (after party folded) - just from 2006 to 2010. So I extrapolate that out to 2018 and assume things are much harder now. Maybe the curve leveled off after that.

gramps has made several million off the game, so I tend to trust his take.

Pokerstars isn't the only place to play. There are tons of "home game" apps with the worst players you've ever seen.

last night before sleeping it was a "3-day flash sale on Udemy $9.99", this morning it is $11.99. lol.

As I'm getting back into things it's kind of surprising how little has changed since 1999. Devs are doing pretty much the same things. Like you said there are more tools and functions to learn, but there's less reinventing the wheel than when you wrote a shopping cart in Perl cgi and didn't have stackoverflow. The biggest difference, and it's not a big difference in logic or anything, is just moving a lot of things to the client side. Javascript sucked back then and I think browsers were way less consistent/compatible.

Still, like these labor saving frameworks seem pretty similar to what people did with their own code "libraries" and templates. People still tried to keep the wheel reinventing to a minimum back then.

the last time i played on poker stars ssnl ~2014ish it was nearly impossible to get a seat with a fish unless you started a table because of seating software. zoom was reg heavy and fish in zoom can just fold and play the next hand immediately so they lost less.

to play those games without rakeback would seem like absolute torture.

i was proud to have any positive winrate pre-rakeback.

as, a footnote, after black friday, i was super easily able to setup a VPN and play from the USA. i wonder how many other people were doing that.

i miss pre-black friday online poker but really don't miss post black friday online poker.

I am currently using POSIX for shared memory, and message passing. The shared memory is read-only to the client, so the client passes messages to the server through that. The shared memory contains the game state (and potentially what each player thinks about the game state). Starting with Tic-Tac-Toe to get the communications down, then go back to the poker code.

I could use shared memory, and get threads to communicate with the server, and figure-out asynchronous communication instead of message queues.

I dislike it when other use block quotes when line comments are sufficient. Sometimes I use block quotes to block-out chunks, which I can't do when they use block quotes indiscriminately.

Printer fun continues:

Still refuses to call HP support. Would rather just send me these emails.

Can you name any specifics? I occasionally get the urge to play but I don't have any great options. Ignition seems decent but their software is garbage

Does the project need to mix native and hybrid? > Don't use flutter, maybe better with ReactNative
Do you already have a decent mobile website? > maybe just port the webtech to a web view system in the app instead of these frameworks.

Do you need the best possibly performance or have a lot of users? Probably should just do native for both iOS and Android.

The larger/complicated the project, the less likely you'll be happy with a hybrid approach. Expect to give back some productivity gains by fighting with these hybrid frameworks. It's not automatically half the work since you don't have to do things twice.

tyty, briefly it was unclear how to proceed with IPC, but I decided on shared memory and threading to make ai rather than message queues. The server is a thread, and each client is a thread. I made my first move in tic-tac-toe, and now I see the light at the end of the tunnel.

There are basically apps that people run as homegames, pppoker is one such app. But you need to get invited into games and they all run on credit that I've seen so you usually need someone vouching for you or get in with the hosts somehow.

yeah... that doesn't sound sketchy at all

Providing online poker to US citizens in 2018 is pretty much sketchy by definition

Yea I looked into it last month. The whole online poker for US is still in shambles. Software is a piece of crap. Little to no support for Mac users. Go look at the internet poker forum, seems like people always have issues depositing and withdrawing.

I can see why someone might really prefer a node backend to go with a JS frontend, if they're working on both. Switching from JS to python is a huge PITA, due to some superficial similarities. Things I am constantly screwing up when I switch

* ! vs not / and vs && / or vs ||
* object syntax, i.e.
{ 'foo': 'bar' } vs { foo: 'bar' }
* obviously indent vs curly braces for blocks
* map/filter/reduce syntax.
javascript is foo.map(function) and python is map(function, foo)
* ternary conditions
"a ? b : c" vs "b if a else c"

and a bunch of other stuff I am sure.

On the other hand, I will probably never write a desktop app again, unless for some reason I really need something that will be installed on a user's computer. It's just too easy to make and launch a javascript app. Mine looks like **** but it works great.

When I do play, I play on america's cardroom. Forget what network that is. The payouts are quick, payment is pretty easy and not that sketchy. The games are pretty lively and a lot of fish. They finally have HUD support, they didn't for a while. The tournaments are really juicy, huge overlays a lot of the time.

Rake is pretty damn high but that's standard these days. I wish there was more action in LHE, it's completely dead except some random 2/4 games that fire up sometimes.

FWIW both of these are valid JS. But neither is valid strict JSON (double quotes everywhere, no comments, no trailing commas).

On my last job we imported all our JSON config stuff as JS so we didn't have to fight with strict JSON all the time. It was just bootup stuff so it's not like performance mattered.


I wish all languages used indentation instead of curly braces. So much cleaner, less code, and you don't get into wars about where to put the curly braces. Also if you use tabs then people can set the tab stops to whatever they want (you can try to do that with other languages but eventually someone checks in spaces and fries out the system).

you'll pry my curly braces from my cold dead hands imo

yea I need the braces. The story goes that Steve Bourne didn't like curly braces, he thought even those were too ambiguous. He preferred the Algol-68 syntax of "if...fi" and "case...esac" etc., which is why we still have that today in bash.

TBH I like that syntax too.

#teamcurlybraces

Has anyone on #teamcurlybraces ever worked extensively with an indentation-based language?

Jade was my first and holy crap I never want to go back to any other template language.

Linus discovers human emotions, kind of

"In my quest for a better patch" lol, he sounds like my dbag coworker that everyone hates

I wouldn't refer to my python and ruby experience as extensive, but it is ongoing. I'm not sure if ruby actually qualifies as "indentation-based" because it doesn't use it for scoping, but... it doesn't have curly braces and that's the distinction that matters to me :P

I'm fairly sure my aesthetic sensibilities are mostly just the result of familiarity, and eventually I won't mind as much. But I spend about 70% of my time right now writing typescript and 30% writing ruby, and I've yet to fully acclimatize to the ruby, although I'm getting better :P I feel like all the python I've written is pretty ugly too, but again I'm sure it's mostly just a lack of familiarity.