Re: Poki to be commercially released!
I'd like to clarify a common misconception....
If you played Poki heads-up on the UofA poker server, you are justified in saying that it sucks. The "Poki Heads-up" Bot was just a full-ring poki stuffed into a heads-up channel. Poki was never designed or tuned to play Heads-up poker, and consequently it is a terrible heads-up player.
However, we have recently developed two strong heads-up players (Sparbot & Vexbot) and they both understand bluffing *extremely* well :-) (Sparbot is a game-theoretic solution to an approximation of Hold'em, of which bluffing is a critical component).
The commercial product (of which I am the lead programmer) incorporates 5 completely different AI Engines developed by our UofA research program, not just the original full-ring 'Poki'.
Cheers,
Aaron
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