Re: [pbmserv-dev] Wizard Hold'em

[Charles Sutton <casutton@cs.umass.edu>]

On Sep 14, 2005, at 12:21 PM, Richard Rognlie wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:14:23AM -0700, Lyman Hurd wrote:
>
> > Personally I echo the sentiment of "$^%$^ no" on
> > poker...
>
> As I stated privately to another party...  feel free not to play.
>
> not all games appeal to all players....
>
> But please don't tell me that it's not an appropriate game for pbmserv

I enjoy poker, and I think it is a good game, but as a friendly  
suggestion,
I think poker is poorly suited to email play.  80% of hands, you  
don't have
any interesting decisions to make: you get 7-2 in first position, and  
you fold.
You have to play a fair number of hands to need to make some fun  
decisions.  I imagine
this would get quite boring in an email-play time scale.  (I'm told  
that strong players
find it boring to fold all the time in a casino, where hands go quite  
a bit faster
than email.)

That said, I'm not going to tell you how to spend your free time,  
especially on your
own server, so if you do it, have fun!

Charles