[crazy canuck]

I would also like to point out one other difference between chess and poker. Poker is played for money. So the methodology to develop a succesful bot is way less likely to be published. Academic finance suffered and suffers from the same problem. The best models to forecast prices and to price derivatives are not published. This is why many academics believed in the efficient market theory for decades. Now there are very few empirical researchers belive
in the EMH.

Same goes for poker bots. So if you were an academic, would you rather get the recognition from a few other AI researchers or make millions. Or even better you can publish your marginal results, get the academic recognition and still make millions.