Re: Poker AI
I have to agree with jknupp. I'm still a poker newbie, just started the 1/2 tables at Party.
But, I still I believe it would be possible for a program to consistently beat the low limit games on the net. I would not be surprised if there are 'bots' that play and win.
A chess program and a poker program are very different. After playing the standard opening moves (the same ones human chess players play), chess playing programs use Min/Max algorithm find the "correct" move. This involves a brute force method of searching through a tree of possible moves to some depth.
While the nodes grow exponentially, it does not take much computational power to defeat a mediocore player. My Palm Pilot would beat me at chess pretty regularly if I set the depth high enough.
That being said, a poker bot doesn't need super computer. I don't think it would be that difficult, certainly not impossible to create a Bayesian Network to make correct plays to beat mediocore players.
Gren
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