Poker Bot piece

[RedManPlus]

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In short, Pirc is correct.We haven't seen a winning bot because people smart enough to make one haven't bothered tackling the problem. That isn't to say the UofA group isn't smart enough - they've chosen to invest most of their time on finding "optimal" strategies rather than winning strategies (strategies that simply exploit players).

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Exactly correct. Key point.

All acedemic research is focused on "basic science"...
Finding optimal, general purpose approaches to beating poker...
That can be applied to more important applications.

Focusing on a very specific game...
Like Party $2/$4 or $22 SNGs...
Where you have player profiles...
And you can back test on 10000s of tournies or 100000s hands...
Is far easier and much more doable.

I'm sure it's been done successfully.

rm+

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