Topic: A Poker slot machine (Read 5157 times)

To anyone who wants to donate BTC to my project, I'd suggest that you put some mBTC in the game and play them: (pokerforbitcoins.ddns.net)

So, instead a plain donation, it will be a donation with some fun plus some chances to win more than what has been donated

all is fine mate

you have a nice game collection there and this for a faucet very interesting

Shit, man. I totally misunderstood, apologies.

I run a faucet-casino (no deposits allowed), which uses that specific slot, but it's heavily modified. I don't have video poker, but what I have is: Plinko, slots, dice, wheel of fortune and blackjack.
You can find the link in my signature. (I am currently uploading the new site, so it's down. Check a bit later )

Once again, apologies.

trolling? why should I? you mentioned in one of your postings

Actually, he didn't design it. He got the script from a site.

http://slotmachinescript.com/

I use the same script, I've just modified it a lot.

my question was if you offer a video poker on your website to your customers?

Not sure if you're trolling, but anyway. That post.

BSM bought the script and edited it.

Yes, I didn't use any script. I reinvented the whole wheel from scratch

mexicantarget was referring to the designer that offered to work for it.

sorry I misunderstood your posting. do you offer a video poker?

no, lol. I was talking about another guy. Check the message I quoted, it's about that BSM guy..
Read carefully. BSM bought that script and edited it.

anyway video poker is a different game compared to a slot machine game. it is nice to see that you
are working hard to get this done. chapeau!

as I now understand you did not take the script that mexicantarget mentioned?

It's actually called "slot" poker in many European countries. Or simply "Slots". (Yes, the video poker itself it's called slots.)

To put my cents on the debate around the title:

It was thought as a video poker that resembles a slot machine. I dind't knw the term video poker before.

Thank you for your words, mexicantarget.

Elm: it's true that I didn't know the term HE, but I did carefully check that variable: against different number of samples, against different player strategies, to assure that the house won't lose everything and at the time assure players that they will win in many cases.

The compromise is not easy: if I let normal players to win a lot, then experienced players would ruin me. But if I protect too much against experienced playhers, then normal player will get bored.

To be honest, I don't have many experience in this area. I took the prizes scheme from a machine I played many decades ago. I really enjoyed a lot that machine (it was in a hotel in Buzios, Brazil, perhaps somebody else knew it).

Then, as I grown nerd, I used to replicate that program in every language I learned, just as an exercise to learn languages. I made that same poker in Z80 Assembler, in Basic, in C++, and now in Python + HTML + CSS + Javascript.

Back then, Internet and Bitcoin didn't existed at all.

It was a few days ago that I realized that both internet and bitcoind offered a new environment for this. It was a little late, as I see that there are a lot of competition there.

When I first developed this game, I didn't know about HE but I had confidence in that the prizes scheme of that machine was well designed. And I tested against 4000 cases.

I didn't knew the concept of provably fair neither, but I've intued that it was important to develop something like that just to foster the confidence that the anonimity of internet would make difficult to make, and I even thought about a cryptographic proof. I think the concepto is just a little overvaluated and overdeveloped right now. After all, in those times when I knew the machine, nobody talk about probably fair nor about HE: we just played and sometimes we won and that was enough.

Times changed, I know. So I want to develop a provably fair test that were much simpler than existent ones. Same way I developed an authentication system many times simpler than the actual ones: you just have to enter your bitcoin address and you're in. That's a security system in it, because nobody can stole you anything (as the withdrawal address will be ever yours because it's impossible to change). That's why is not a must to make it go through a SSL connection (which I will do anyway when I had the funds).

This game was developed from a completely fresh view on it, trying to get advantage of tools that this technologies has in them (like bitcoin, that is an authentication system itself), to make it more simple than other systems.


EDIT: I just want to add: I may not know a lot of used terms about this, but I thought and tested every of the aspects in depth. While it's working well, it's still in a developing stage now, and I plan to add many other features soon.

Oh, then, I know what "HE" means, heh.

Maybe he visualized it as a slot machine which deals the cards and hasn't implemented that function yet?

please go to OPs site http://pokerforbitcoins.ddns.net

I don't see a slot machine but what I see is a video poker game and I am asked to hold and get dealed new cards before the decision is made if I won or lost the hand

HE = House Edge = the % of an house advantage

I'm not a gambler myself, so I don't even know what "HE" means to be honest.

I assume the difference can be understood from the words. "Slot", slots spin. "Video poker" doesn't have that spinning effects slots have.

Not sure to be honest, but that's what I understand. Please correct me if I'm wrong. We're both on the same boat, lol

would you mind to explain the difference of a slot poker and video poker? the OP does not know the HE of his machine do you know? thank you

I love to learn new stuff

It's a slot poker actually, it's stated in the title


@OP
Don't pay attention, lol. People who use "language barrier" attacks are just jealous they can't do what you did there

Wish you good luck with your original concept. You deserve to succeed.

I did not see a video poker on the site. did I miss it?

Actually, he didn't design it. He got the script from a site.

http://slotmachinescript.com/

I use the same script, I've just modified it a lot.

@OP

Very nice idea, like it a lot.

CORRECTION about the HE.

The HE varies from 40% to 1% according to player strategy. 30% was the average through 4000 plays, mostly blind ones, but I found individual runs from 50% to 1%. 50% with the worse strategies and 1% with the better ones (plus some lucky strikes may be).

In many short runs, it reaches from -%20 to -%100 for the house, it is, a gain from 20% to 100% for the player.

Players have three main tools to make a strategy: 1. selection criteria for holding cards, 2. bet control (how much low and high bets they do) and 3. moment of withdrawal (if you don't withdraw when you are winning, it's possible that you lose you gains).