Phil Laak vs. the bot

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A perfectly programmed bot with a HH database backing it up would be unbeatable, and there is nothing in online poker a bot couldnt be programmed to handle perfectly.


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Headsup, perhaps yes, eventually. In a ring game, never.

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This is vastly harder than you guys think.

Going from hand histories (i.e. a big pile of data) to making good poker decisions is a tremendously difficult problem.

The state of the art for a 'learning' HU bot is UofA's vexbot, and that is soundly beaten by some non-learning bots, even after having tens of thousands of hands in its database.

Marv