Wednesday, September 1, 2010

[vpFREE] killer feature for a VP trainer

i already own two VP software packages, FVP and VPW, which is more
than enough. however, there is one feature which, if anyone
implemented it, would get me to shell out another $50 in a heartbeat
and recommend that all my VP-playing friends do the same.

i want directed training. my VP trainer should look at my errors,
identify my problem areas, and give me more hands like the ones that
gave me problems. any good human tutor does this. why not have the
computer tutor do it too?

if i'm practicing NSUD and it gives me W 4d 5s 6d 7d and i hold all
five, then twenty hands later, it should give me W Jh 9h 8h 7s. and if
i get *that* wrong, it should deal me W 6s 9s 5h 7s a few hands later.
basically, it should keep shoving W+SF3 1i vs W+ST4 hands down my
throat until i *do* consistently get it right.

or if i'm practicing JoB with an 8000 royal and forget to hold ATs, or
hold QJo over QTs, then those particular features should be
overrepresented in the hands it gives me later. maybe it could even be
clever enough to also give me extra hands with other close decisions
involving those lines on the strategy chart - like AJo vs ATs in
addition to ATs vs A, or JTs vs QJo in addition to QTs vs QJo.

this is not necessarily an easy thing to implement. there are a lot of
possible patterns for human errors and they are not always easy for a
computer to identify. but it would be so, so useful.

cheers,

five


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