[Mano]

The thing is, if you could program a bot that could win even a fraction of a bet/hr, say 1/3 BB/hr you could make a fortune because you could run multiple bots playing multiple tables, and they could play 24 hrs a day, every day. Because of the greater volume of hands the bots could play, you might not mind sacrificing the small edge plays that would increase the difficulty in making the program (but would probably also increase the variance) because even if their hourly take is small compared to a typical winner they would be capable of playing so many more hands than a human that they would still make more. Of course this could be used to detect them, but you could get around that by running your computer players in shifts (even adding in random starting times and session lengths with in a reasonable range) and always having a number of them going at the same time.