CORDIAL MINUET ENSEMBLE

Probably some of ya'll missed this article, which should provide some background: http://cordialminuet.com/incrementensem … php?id=112

I was playing JA last night a bit. They were doing the leave-as-soon-as-ahead thing. Yea, leaving at the right time is a skill, but it's also incredibly frustrating to play against.

It was really hard to tell what their picking strategy was. Often, it seemed like "one high number" but there was enough variation that it was hard to predict. Overall, I think their success comes from an aggressive betting game. There were definitely a lot of bluffs going on. The last game I played they raised 20 and then went all in on a bad hand.

It looks like JA had a rough night, dropping  to 3rd on Elo and losing $25. I'm sure they'll be back on top soon though. They're really good!

Interesting tidbit I've harvested over the past couple days (if this OK to share): Clock Form has played the most games and Jeopardy Alcohol the second most. Something like 180 and 75 games respectively the last time I checked and that's just in a few couple of days.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you're only updating the cache/resetting the timer when the page is viewed. I've checked a few times since you posted about the change and I usually get "Updated 0 seconds ago." Not that I'm pushing for this change or anything, but if your goal is to prevent checking and immediately getting results, that isn't being accomplished (at least when activity is low). It's compounded by there being multiple boards that can each give you a clue about who was playing (there should usually be at least one that hasn't seen a page view in 5 minutes).

Ah, ok. If the leaderboards cache for 5 minutes, that's perfect (hopefully I'd just hit it 1 minute after the refresh instead of 1 before). If the game gets significantly more popular, yea, most of the time you wouldn't get the P1 vs P2 aspect. Even if you can't sort out who played against each other, it's still really useful to see who is active.

.., glad you like it! It actually did go down last for quite a while last night. A locked cron job or something. I had the thing on for one day and it fails already... ugh. I really need to get some new hosting.

sjon03, that's possible but I hesitate to do that. Elo is already easily accessible. The goal with this bot was to highlight the temporal differences that otherwise go unnoticed.

The bot is currently going to attempt to post everything. So even though it's only every 5 minutes, there should still a mention of every match. Sometimes it can condense them at the rate of ~2 matches per tweet though. As it stands, I view this as more a webpage you go to when you're playing rather than something you follow. I mean, if you want to follow it be my guest of course!

If there's enough interest, I could indeed make another one that only tweets high stakes matches. Then the question is: what's a "high stakes" match. $1? $5? There were about 20 games over the past day in which more than $1 changed hands (as opposed to 88 tweets in total).

I doubt it also (I had to do a phone verification this time to make a twitter "app").

But I did have a similar idea. You would @ the bot with a list of aliases you wanted to "follow" and the bot would henceforth reply back to you every time they had a match. That way you could keep track of your own account or any arbitrary account you are interested in without actually following the bot. Anyone up for that?

Hoping that the leaderboards don't get cached by the way... that would pretty much nip this thing in the bud.

Oh, so maybe that answers that question if someone is already doing it? I'd probably make some sort of stream of matches. For example:

$1 - JEOPARDY ALCOHOL vs. FORETHOUGHT TOBACCO - final score: $0.81, $1.15

The accuracy of this would depend on how often it checked (and how many pages back) because multiple games at the same stake ending around the same time could confuse it. Usually it'd be a good approximation I think. It would give AnoHito exactly what he's asking for (and many of us do this manually anyway). I refresh the boards all the time, not just to see who I could be playing, but to witness what's going down on among other players.

It'd be pretty cool to have had this for Doorman vs. Clemency.

Anyway, I've been itching to make another twitter bot and this might be perfect for that.

Well for me it's more about knowing who I'm playing. Sometimes I'm looking for someone specific (like I've been trying to see when I play Jeopardy because I want to know what's that like). Or I want to make a mental note based on the strategy.

This kind of stuff somewhat goes against the inherent workings of the game, but based on what Jason has said before, he's cool with a lot of third party stuff. In TCD, it was a huge thing to find out what your name was (you weren't told by the game) and to discuss the neighborhood going ons with the community.

I think that's what I'm suggesting here. If you do the same during the 3rd turn, I think you already get the resulting red scores.

edit: Nevermind. I was confused. I suppose that's another solution, but from a usability perspective it's a lot harder to mouse over 8 of those little tick marks as opposed to 8 tiles.

1. As soon as the payout animation begins, you can leave and you won't pay the next ante.

2. I used to often play a table out completely, but now it's best to leave before the ante is roughly equal to the opponent's stack. Otherwise, you'll end up essentially going all-in before even seeing your first number.

Oh darn. I've been chewing on this for a while and never put 2 and 2 together.

In lieu of letting you fiddle with sliders during betting, which would confuse the UI, this is the best approach.

IMHO, previewing the final red selections doesn't offer you much information. Each possibility gives 6 more possibilities for your opponent and plenty for yourself. On the other hand, previewing the number you'll get tells you exactly what your final score is.

It was pretty good! Hikaru no Go was one of only two animes I've ever watched (I just finished Code Geass after significant cajoling from a friend). I played it in college while attending a go club and it always kept me motivated. The thing I loved about it and why I posted that image is that it took a slow, quiet, and ostensibly boring game and cranked up the melodrama to the point where you might as well have been watching a mech battle.

Neat. Dramatic is definitely true. I wonder if this will encourage leavers though. Either way the games are going to end sooner rather than later.

Yea!! You could even set the initial ante to 0, since you should have absolutely no knowledge about the opponent when you make your first pick. Perhaps too boring.

Hmmmm. I suppose you know this mystery player, since I don't think they have identified themselves here.

CUUUUULLLLLLMMMMAAAN!!!!

I'm due.

When shall we resume?