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- From: jamesr@Autodesk.COM (James Rowell)
- Newsgroups: rec.gambling
- Subject: Re: WRGPT II Rules change, anyone?
- Message-ID: <18215@autodesk.COM>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 01:15:50 GMT
- References: <1h4tclINNsfe@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
- Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA
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- tahajian@aries.East.Sun.COM (David Tahajian - Sun BOS Software) writes:
- > In article <18193@autodesk.COM> jamesr@Autodesk.COM (James Rowell) writes:
- > >
- > >Conversely I'd like to see a way to force players to speed up who
- > >continually take a long time to bet BUT don't time-out. For example,
- > >there are several players at my table who have repeatedly caused lengthy
- > >delay only to fold, and I'm sure in most of these cases an advance bet
- > >could have been made. Getting several such players in one pot means it
- > >takes forever to complete. Hence the slow tables.
-
- > Come on now... are you really saying that you've never made an advance
- > bet only to have it bounce back to you when someone raises?
- > For example, the bet starts at $500, and you send a "make $500" advance
- > bet and go home for the day, thinking that you were a good guy by speeding
- > up the game with your advance bet. Someone else raises, and you come in the
- > next day, only to find your advance bet was "insufficient". You then decide
- > to fold. The other players may see you doing a "big delay and fold", but
- > they have no idea that you even made an advance bet to begin with.
- > See my point?
-
- Yes I see your point. But if, as you say, the bet had been started
- at $500 couldn't you just send in the bet "call $500" in most of these
- situations? "call $500" accomplishes the same result that you
- described and doesn't cause a delay.
-
- For the sake of argument, let's say it started at $100. You want to
- make it $500 and, as in your example, fold if a larger bet has been made
- in front of you. Now, correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the
- plain-old "$500" command do that? I.e., it'll make the bet $500 or fold
- if insufficient? If it doesn't maybe it should work that way.
-
- Aside:
-
- Some of you may want to make your decisions based upon the pot odds
- which you can't determine until its your turn. Perhaps the addition
- of a variable which holds the current value of the pot can be provided.
- Then (after tons of hard work to code in the new feature :-)) you could
- send in the advanced command
-
- if ( $pot > $5000 ) { call $1000 } else { call $500 };
-
- I'm sure we could come up with a simple language to allow us to express
- all the kinds of decisions we need to make when deciding how to act.
- Like, who has acted before us? Who raised? Etc...
-
- I like the concept. I just don't know how practical it is. Errors in
- advanced messages would be much more common and maybe it'll slow up the game
- even more. I'm sure the guys who wrote the WRGPT program have thought
- about providing such features and wisely decided to forget about it.
-
- But who knows, maybe it could work if it was done right...
-
- James.
-
- P.S. I hope I'm putting the folks at my table on tilt with my bitching
- about the slow play. Come on, come on... come and get me! :-)
-