Unsettling Bot News

[Webster]

You guys are all so niave. Technology is so slow to develop isn't it. Snails pace.

Are Bots something to worry about near term? NO Are they something to be concerned about - WITHOUT A DOUBT.

Ever here of AI? spftware that learns as it goes? I mean REAL AI. Not code that someone puts into a smart piece of software.

It's out there already, not in any form that Joe Public understands or knows about but I would think in the next 20 years it will be something the poker rooms will have to seriously look into.

HOWEVER - before THOSE type of BOTS take over pokerrooms there will be changes that you and me can't even imagine.

Technology is really on the brink of some truely outstanding breakthroughs, right now it's just making things we have, better. There is stuff out there that will bring on a new era, like computers did. Perhaps free energy, that would change a few things.

Worry about the things we can change and not what we can't.

[CrackerZack]

All your base are belong to us.

[AviD]

Someone set up us the bomb!
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You have no chance to survive make your time!

[elitegimp]

for great justice, take off every zig.

[Drexel]

I am more concerned with collusion than bots.

[MicroBob]

your friend talking with a guy at the WSOP who has an opinion on bots and the demise of online-poker hardly qualifies as news.
it qualifies as your firend talking to some guy who thinking online poker is doomed.


if i have a friend who returned from Wash DC who talked with someone 'in the government' who says that Saddam Hussein is going to put anthrax in everyone's chocolate-chip cookies would that be news??


(yummmm....cookies....i'm getting hungry!!!)


some poker-players think bots will ruin the game...others don't.
just like some WSOP participants think bots will ruin the game...others don't.

[kem]

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What is a bot?

A program that plays to an optimal strategy.

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No, a bot is a program that automatically plays *A* strategy. The strategy could actually be quite horrible, but the program playing it is still a "bot".

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What is an optimal strategy?
An impossible utopia.

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This is true, but then how do chess programs win with no optimal strategy? Perhaps you're confusing "optimal" with "superior".. Who says that a bot can't play superior strategy and beat 99.99% of poker players out there?

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There is no best playing style for a table, and a bot would have to be very well programmed to adjust to it.

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And why couldn't someone program a bot to adjust gameplay based on table conditions?

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I do not consider them a major factor. Nor would i spot them any further than i spot a tight-aggressive player.

Too much hype and not enough thought has gone in to the bot debate.

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I don't know if anyone thinks it's a problem now, but I think it is certainly something to think about for the future. There is nothing stopping it from happening other than a bunch of people hand-waving and saying something about it being too hard a problem.

[stupidsucker]

Im telling you.

Its not going to be a problem unless some idiot decides to market one that plays well.. Even if this does happen, then the various poker sites will take some easy measures to prevent it.

Bring on the bots I say.. If I spot one, I will do what I can to exploit it.

[twang]

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[AviD]

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