As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I never have fidgeted, but here am I, high strung.
If I sit, I am playing with a clothes pin or something on the table, as it is the way I deal with frustration in wanting to get to someplace which I have not yet arrived in the years of my life.
On September 1st, something happened, as I used to play chess or something else in the background while working and doing things, but as I stopped listening to music as I feel it disrupts my frequency, I play Hearts, which the Viking likes, and I .....would rather play Spades I have a psyche which is on the offensive, instead of Hearts which is defensive.
In the old Microsoft XP, I ran circles around Hearts. The new one cheats. I swear one game all the cards were gone in a suit and one appeared nailing me in the end. I'm a skilled Hearts player as I have said, and on fair ground am proficient, as with most card games.
On this date of September 1, I had played 990 card games of Hearts, 54% wins, 642 losses, 348 wins, and I was doing better, but then the game went on a spree and dropped me several percentage points and even on good days, I was winning only half the time.
The old XP, I had done wonderfully well. I set the computer often enough, I drove all of the computer hands over 100 points, there were milestones of winning in 5 hands, and quite a few times I has zero points. Not with the 7 version, as I started out well, the game learned, the game cheated, and where my scores were in the teens without trying, suddenly I was battling often in the 70's to win.
What was frustrating as I was doing this to relax, was I was stuck at 8 points as a personal best for sometime. I got it down to 4, then months to the 2, and a 1, but every time I came close, like the other night, I was stuck with 16 points, and that is where I finished in columns of zero scores. The game cheats.
Tonight though around 9:30 pm, I was playing, sort of paying attention, when I set the game again, and then had two really bad hands dealt to me, and I thought, "Here we go again", but by God's Grace, this time I did not take a trick.
For those who are not skilled at Hearts, bad hands or hands you have the most trouble with are the middle of the road numbers like 8, 9, 10 with a face card. You will get nailed bad on those hands, and if you do not short suit yourself, which is the first rule in Hearts, with the second always keeping Spaces to protect yourself from the Queen, as you need cards to sluff, and yes an Ace and King are sluff cards, in cases where you have the Queen, as in a hand like 8 of Spades, Queen, King and Ace, will in normal conditions not stick you with your own Queen, because there are 13 cards to a suit, and in 4 Spades to a hand, in 3 hands you will burn the Spades out, and be left to sluff the Queen, all except in computer Hearts, as they short suit Spades to nail the human that way.
Did not mean to get into a teaching course on Hearts, but you have to learn, like in the round I set the computer, I had the Ace, King, Queen, Jack of Hearts, and little cards, but was missing the 8,9, 10 and 6 of Hearts. The 2, 3 and 4 are worthless, but become trump cards, when you burn out the other Hearts and as long as you pick up the Queen of Spades, it does not matter if the last tricks at the end with trash cards are not taken, as you have the 26 points.
In this case, I only had the King and Queen of Spades, and mixed them in, hoping the Ace would not appear as a lone card, and once I had the Queen home, the rest was easy as I played my small stuff like the 2 of Diamonds first, no Hearts were sluffed, and I lead with the 10 of Clubs, and the rest of the tricks were mine.
In knowing all of this as a card Master, I still am only winning 54% against this damned Microsoft cheating game.
So this is a milestone, and I do not know if I will play Hearts again, as I tend to accomplish what I want and walk away from it all.
When the West was sitting at 73 points, I calculated that 26 would not get me there in a win, and the cards were not coming anyway, but when 75 was topped, I knew I was close as it still took 2 more hands and with that I only hit the limit without trying of 100 points...not trying meaning, I was playing defensive more to not take a point when I was this close again, rather than being aggressive in trying to feed tricks to the computer.
I have a habit of playing against the computer in trying to feed points to which hand is ahead or closest to me, because the computer time and again, sticks me with a big score at the end, and I end up losing, as the odds in this Hearts game sucks in I have to defeat 3 hands, and I get nothing for coming in second.
So it is wearing and not relaxing this game.
Just sharing a success in something which means absolutely nothing. The only things cards teach you is in the random order of chaos, that if you play bad hands well, pay attention to feeding a point to the hands which are having good hands, that in 10 hands, a few tricks collect to 20 points. Often the difference in war, money and life.
Once again this is another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Nuff Said
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