Awesome pic. Downloaded and set as desktop wallpaper.

Do you have any more of these?

Anonymous on 4/7/2009 7:04 PM (337 days ago)

Yikes.

Feels like my last session on PokerScars.

Beer Me on 4/7/2009 7:18 PM (337 days ago)

To quote Michale Scott:

"Two words: AWESOME!"

I'd love to know how you used Paint.NET to put this together. I've always used it as a glorified replacement for MS Paint.

Jerry B. on 4/7/2009 8:18 PM (337 days ago)

Cool. Like the Death Star meets Battlestar Galactica meets poker.

Jerry B: He would have had to have done most of the work in GIMP. It would be really hard to do something like this entirely in Paint.NET.

Anonymous on 4/7/2009 11:08 PM (337 days ago)

I love the composition here... sexy.

April on 4/8/2009 6:25 AM (337 days ago)

Sweet picture. Never used GIMP. Will have to try it, but I'm just getting the hang of photoshop. Still couldn't do something quite like this though :s

Poker Forums on 4/8/2009 4:58 PM (336 days ago)

you are officially a dork

btw, strange you keep doing the poker series when you know pokerstars security is all over this place. anyway, I'm a sw engineer and a poker player so more power to ya.

Anonymous on 4/8/2009 9:10 PM (336 days ago)

Pretty sure the last sentence of this was a joke... this author is a grammar Nazi (review the dash abuser piece) and I doubt he'd write that way unless he was mocking someone. Tsk tsk.

Jonathan Devries on 4/8/2009 10:10 PM (336 days ago)

I'd love to see a step-by-step post illustrating how you put this together.

Argonaut on 4/9/2009 5:46 AM (336 days ago)

James - this is the guy who called you a dork... What I mean about Stars security is not that you'll be living Wargames, but that anything you write here will be read by Stars and they'll start trying to counter it. So I'm not sure why you'd continue putting in the effort - unless these are techniques you don't use in your "real" bot.

I put the dashes in there for you.

Anonymous on 4/10/2009 9:32 PM (334 days ago)

I came across your site from a post on 2+2 that got about 6k views in 2 days.

forumserver.twoplustwo.com/.../

If you are the artist behind those pics, I'd really really like to see how you put them together. Or request a custom version -- this is great fodder for desktop wallpaper.

Anyway, love the blog, keep it coming.

Pooh Bah on 4/14/2009 7:41 PM (330 days ago)

could have chosen some prettier julia sets

Anonymous on 4/18/2009 3:54 AM (327 days ago)

Way cool! I recently created a Resolver One Spreadsheet that stores the 1326 starting hands as 52 digit bitmasks and then grouped into 169 IronPython objects and stored in cells representing the starting hand type. Not nearly as pretty, but very fun to play with for analyzing hands with Keith Rule's Pokersource Evaluator port. Check it out: http://www.theg2.net/rsltexasholdem/

Greg Bray on 5/4/2009 4:44 PM (310 days ago)

Thanks. Yeah, I don't use spreadsheets much either, but Resolver One is running a until the end of May to give away $2,000 a month for the best spreadsheet. That was enough to get me interested, and I used the free Open Source licence to submit the spreadsheet for analyzing poker hands (P.S.... it won! . I wrote a short [url=http://blog.theg2.net/2009/05/resolver-one-review-4-months-with-net.html]review of using Resolver One, and I highly recommend it for any sort of number crunching or complex analysis.

Greg Bray on 5/19/2009 3:11 PM (296 days ago)