Hoooh boy do not let me into the casinos I just lost 315 gold and I do NOT feel great about it.
I love autobattlers, so this was up my alley. It took me a second to get a feel for what exactly was happening, especially with all the symbols and stats and such, but I think i was able to figure it out after a couple of rounds. For the most part i bet on the dudes I thought looked the coolest anyway. There's absolutely a charm to the hand drawn art IMO and I kinda got attached to my team I kept betting on. Till they died.
The technical aspects of this go wayyy over my head, but I'm enjoying the results a bunch, so I'd argue you've done well on what you set out to do. Maybe some sort of symbol cheat sheet or dictionary would be helpful? Regardless, cool stuff!