Since Yahoo's euchre site has been fried, I have been playing spades. And if you think the average euchre player is stupid, you should play spades. Wow. One...
... I greatly prefer Pogo to any other site. It is easy to set a table to play 10-point games without "TRAM." Pogo's main drawback is it can take a long time...
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... It is easy to set the table. What is hard is to get other players to come to a table without "TRAM" -- or to stay there. They just RAISE HELL. "What?!...
in my brief expierences pogo is just a colorful crappily written java site with the only plus being tram. the few times i was there its playability was alright...
Ok, I give. What is TRAM? ... Ok, I give. What is TRAM? On 8/2/06, david cejmer < cdavid469@... > wrote: in my brief expierences pogo is just a colorful...
There are several things I dislike about Pogo from when I play to gain euchre badges. 1) The Pips on the cards are too small. More than once I clicked on a...
I sent an email to yahoo complaining. They responded that whatever it was they did has now been re-corrected, if there is such a word. Anyhow, I can once...
SOme have suggested that card distribution in online games is skewed. I remember an article about euchre probabilities where the professor stated that the...
Donating can be a winning strategy in a live game too. If you play someone who's dumb enough to tip off that they have a pretty good loner (lot's of people...
Yes, I also have heard the rumors of a 'stacked deal' in yahoo. I don't know anyway to verify such a statement. Although I have often been suspicious of a non...
... Exactly! The card distribution is skewed, causing not just an overfrequency of scoring loners, but also a lot of forgiveness when weak calls are made....
Oh c'mon Sword. You're a programmer. You've most likely worked at large organizations at one time or another. Coding a deal stacker is more of an effort...
At best there can only be the suspicion that the deck is skewed. Short of keeping track of the deal of hundreds (or thousands) of hands, you can't really know...
... don't know anyway to verify such a statement. ... also noticed that my suspicions are heightened when I lose. So, this in itself indicates that I am not...
For the sake of argument I think having a skewed distribution definitely changes the strategy. Let's say somehow the distributions are altered so that the...
... large organizations at one time or another. Coding a deal stacker is more of an effort than coding a random sorter. Do you really think a behemoth like...
... of ... can't ... everyone ... 'And if it is skewed, it will be skewed for everyone so it shouldn't have any practical implications on your strategy.' Not...
'maybe I'm simply paranoid' I don't detect paranoia in your post. I see that you recognize the difference between online and live hands, as I do. In any event,...
Has the moon been landed upon by man? I don't know. But I do know the geographic locations ofbig winnings instant scratch lottery tickets is not totally random...
Well then let's try this. If Yahoo is this super efficient software development machine that has "keeping the maximum number of gamers in their domain" as...
Well, if I was to hypothesize what yahoo's motivation was concerning dealing randomly or skewing the deal, I would put forth the same argument as you did...
... development machine that has "keeping the maximum number of gamers in their domain" as their top priority so as to maximize hits, why has the their euchre...
I think the lack of randomness could be attributed to the difficulty of creating a truly random number on computer systems. I created a euchre simulator on my...
