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#1 Re: Main Forum » A bot among us? » 2015-02-14 10:44:37
You guys called it! Glad that somebody finally noticed.
After seeing Jason's post regarding bots (from this thread), I thought it would be a fun/interesting/challenging project.
I actually haven't done any work on it in the past week or two. I just recently turned it back on for fun and to drain out the rest of my account balance.
As everybody's discovered my bot is pretty terrible. It just calculates the odds of winning and picks/bets accordingly.
Why run a bot that reliably loses money?
It makes for a pretty screensaver 
Who created the bot?
Me
Do they also play manually?
I've played a bit. Especially when I was just starting and creating the bot. I haven't played much since then. I'm much more interested in improving the bot. I have, however, watched my bot play a lot. It's mesmerizing. Except when you're agonizing over its terrible decisions.
If so, do they use CF or a separate account?
I've done almost all my play on the clock form account. I did at one point create another account to play against my bot and debug some specific issues, but I only played a handful of games with it.
Are they gathering data to improve their operation?
I'm definitely collecting data, albeit in a pretty haphazard way, throughout the games. I probably won't ever use it for anything.
Is practically every person playing Cordial Minuet a programmer?
Probably most
I definitely suspected the same, especially when they still raised when the graph showed clearly they had lost that round. Mistakes happen but it was pretty suspicious. This was a while ago, mind, I think they have tweaked their strategy a bit since then.
I've gone through many iterations and tweaks. The bot actually started out just making random moves and always calling! No matter what! It's definitely not good now, but it shouldn't be making that obvious of a mistake any more.
For example, last night I played a game where I was able to make it fold at the first betting stage every single time. It folded itself down to 0.
Good strategy! Right now it won't call any raises if the calculated chances of winning after the first pick are below 50%.
Though personally I think they may just be programming the bot for the sake of the challenge, since realistically they would have a very difficult time making enough money with it to justify the time they'd have to spend on it.
This
Baby, it's not my bot.
Thanks for providing me the opportunity for this fun little project!
I may or may not put more work into this depending on whether I get motivated. Unless Jason has changed his stance on bots.
And yes, I'm very happy with the name 'Clock Form'. It's perfect.
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