In-Depth Review of WinHoldem Professional

[LinusKS]

This is from Schaeffer's website (apparently he wrote Poki):

Q: How good is Poki?

A: The older version of Poki that plays in full 10-player games is better than a typical low-limit casino player, and wins consistently against average opponents; but it is not as good as most expert players. The newer programs being developed for the 2-player game are quite a bit better, and we believe they will eventually surpass all human players, perhaps within a few years, or less.




Q: Does Poki play on any of the online poker servers?

A: No. Poki may participate in online games in the future (including real-money games), but the program will always be clearly identified, so players will always have a choice of whether they want to play in a game with Poki or not.
[If you are a manager of an online poker server, and you are interested in having Poki play at your site, please contact darse@cs.ualberta.ca].

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~games/pok...tml#commercial

[LinusKS]

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Solving checkers? maybe John and his team should skip poker and move right up to high stakes Jinga or rubix cube.

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That checkers is a simple game is a wide-spread, but mistaken notion.

[JellyFishy]

"A poker playing bot that beats high-level competition is either in use already or will be in use very soon. It is unlikely to be detectable or commercial and will blast thru the win rates of any human alive. It will be able to play in many games and 24-7 (with the use of different computers and IPs of course). It will be so profitable that the developer will not sell it to others."

What if they do get caught? Then they will probably sell them to the public like Winholdem. Then we will know FOR SURE that they exists. Cardrooms will have to stop them once the rumour becomes REAL!

The cardrooms trying to stop those bots will probably end up closing accounts of many innocent college kids, halting wrinkly pensioner's only form of domestic adult entertainment, and other innocent bored housewifes.
Innocent people will be frustrated.

Rumours of other bots will seem REAL and anybody with the Player names "Terminator", "Alien", "Cyberxxx" will clear all the tables due to the "reverse prop effect", I think was discovered by the Slovenian scientist Mikhail Bezrabotat. Any obnoxious players will find that they can clear tables faster than before they had their chat taken away.

"They get free airfare to travel to tournaments. When you
see them in big games you can be sure they are playing with government money. The whole thing strikes me as a bit like fusion... sure it works, but the amount of money the Slovenian government is investing is far more than the money they get out."

The complimentaries in Slovenia are amongst the most generous in the world, I got flights tripled comped and money reimbursed despite winning thousands from Blackjack.
The casinos there seems to have no idea with basic comp maths, so my guess is the Slovenian bot is Loose-Aggressive.

"That could change, though, since a big part of the research is bots. I know at least one bot here is ready for action. Someone here showed me figures suggesting that as much as 1% of the Slovenian GNP could come from poker bots playing online poker in the future. I am concerned that a country (albeit a tiny one) would so aggressively pursue money that is for some a fun pasttime and for others a serious career."

Slovenia has many casinos for such small country because nearby Italy have very few, 3 casinos last time I checked. Italians likes to gamble and so takes trips to Austria and Slovenia to play blackjack.

Poker is very small stakes penny games, but the girls are the most gorgeous around that area so I decided to impress them with my skill, courage and generosity at the poker table, for a few hours I terrorised the field, winning the biggest pots and made them play serious when they realised that they are up against a pro. After the great performance I won $2, and tipped it away generously.