[_D&L_]

Hey Andrew,

First, for anybody else reading Andrew is the author of poker stove. Second, Andrew you may remember me. I wrote you about a year or so ago, inquiring about access to poker stove source code, offering to make some "improvements," sign a confidentiality agreement, etc. You declined, as I probably would have too in your situation, but you can't really fault me for trying.

At any rate, i wrote this code to be used with bots and junk that I was working on. I didn't have your code as a starting point, so maybe i needed to re-invent the wheel - to some extent. Certainly poker stove is great at what it's designed to do, and my intent was never to write a program to displace yours.

One thing i noticed is that with poker stove is that if you set all the players to distributions, the program slows considerably. Its not a big deal for Poker_stove, because rarely are there 9 other players on the flop with you, but Pstove does slow from about 100,000 million games a sec to about 1 game every 4 seconds (9 players on broadway, final player on random all). The slow down isn't as severe with 3 or 4 players on the flop, but it still slows by a magnitude of about 200.

Again, not a big deal for pokerstove, because few Pokerstove users need a question like this answered. But when you set a bot to search for the right strategy, u don't want it hit bottlenecks like that. So thats why my program tries to process everything at a more uniform speed. Besides, even if poker stove does do a better job than my program in answering these questions, i still didn't have access to the source to use in other programs. So at any rate, thats why I wrote my own...

Dirty & Litigious

-Dirty & Litigious