From Neon Novice to Star King: My AI-Powered Journey Through Cyberpunk Gambling

I didn’t set out to win big. I set out to understand why we lose.

At 32, with an MSc from Imperial College London and years spent debugging AAA titles at Ubisoft, I stopped seeing games as gambling—and started seeing them as neural feedback loops. The neon glow of Shibuya wasn’t just lighting; it was my debugger’s canvas. Every ‘add’ button press was a synapse firing—a micro-decision in real time.

I used to think ‘high RTP’ meant luck. Now I know: it’s the rhythm between hesitation and action. The ‘Star King’ isn’t awarded—it’s earned through disciplined pattern recognition, like training a neural net on live data while sipping matcha at 3 AM.

My budget? £1200/month. Not for wins—for clarity. Each session: 20–30 minutes. No grand theatrics. Just quiet observation: which nodes fired? Which lights dimmed? Who stayed?

The ‘Neon Banquet’ isn’t a festival—it’s the algorithm whispering back: when you choose to fold, the system rewards you with silence.

I once won ¥8000 in three hours—not because I was lucky, but because I stopped chasing stars and started listening to the code.

This isn’t gaming. It’s epistemology dressed in pixels.

If you’re still betting… you haven’t begun playing yet.