This little project started when I stumbled on a website of competitive Monopoly tips and strategies. I’ve played Monopoly my entire life, but never once considered employing advanced strategies. The biggest change in my game was the day I passed over the car in favor of the thimble as my token of choice – not only because I decided I wanted something more humble and understated, but also because it allows one to make lisp-based thimble jokes (the thimble of victory, the thimble of eleganth).

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A while back, after a particularly frustrating string of online Poker games, where it seemed like I was catching nothing but garbage cards I thought it would be great to be able to go back and look over a game, hand-by-hand, to see how often I caught strong hole cards and when I did catch cards, how often I won with them.

Technically I can already do this. Most of my online playing is done at Full Tilt Poker. One of the cool features of the site is a “Hand History” which records everything done on every hand: What your starting stack is, what your hole cards are, what cards are dealt, how much you bet, what the result is… It even records any online chatting between players. For example, a sample hand looks like this (my screen name is “cabbotage”):

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