I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI

Summary

In the last two weeks I spent over a dozen hours playing poker, primarily online at pokerstarsmi.com, and live at a local casino. You can view the last 1,000 hands I played here: https://poker.rchase.comI spent at least as much time reviewing my hands with a desktop app called PokerTracker 4, I read 6 books, studied strategy, and journaled about it my Apple Notes.Then I started building my own Python script automations to export my hand history from PokerStars, import it into PokerTracker 4, check my balance, stuff like that.That led me to getting help writing code from Grok, then Cursor, and then building a full blown Laravel MVP for a web app similar to the PokerTracker 4 desktop app.Why poker?Without getting too philosophical, it's not about the money won or lost - I'm playing low stakes right now because I'm a beginner.I just want to learn the game.Maybe someday I'll play some tournaments or high stakes.But right now, more importantly, I'm learning about myself.Emotional intelligence becoming aware of emotions in myself and othersSelf-regulation trying to control my emotions and not let them influence my actionsResilience not giving up because of downswingsHumility learning to not get overconfident after a big winI also have enjoyed the lessons from the bankroll side of the game: Managing risk, taking profits, cutting lossesDeveloping the discipline to scale down my buy-ins when losing to keep a max of 10% of bankroll in play so I don't blow my entire bankroll on a bad dayWhether I won or lost money in a given day isn't important, what's important is whether I followed my plan or not.If I let emotions guide my actions, or I maintained self-control.Success is if I made good decisions given the information I had at the time, even if it didn't lead to a good outcome.The analogies to life and business lessons are endless... but in this blog post I mainly wanted to write about my experience building this web app with AI which was completely mind blowing!Building a po...