100 000$ poker bot tournament!

[Marc Desjardins]

"The march of the machines will be celebrated in Las Vegas next month with the world's first money tournament for robots — and the $100,000 prize is drawing a handful of coders out of anonymity."

Full article here

[sthief09]

I'm pretty sure this thing has been going on for like 20 years

[Marc Desjardins]

Sorry, this was a repost

But there's a discussion about it on slashdot

[mmbt0ne]

Wow, reading through the discussions there is painful.

"Without bluffing you play the odds and it just becomes a simple game of chance"
"Too late by over a year. We passed the majority are non-human players a while ago."

And this classic discussion
"A friend of mine at MIT already found a simple mathmatical algorithm for winning at Texus holdum in partypoker.com."
"This is BS. It's not something "just discovered!" there IS mathematics which can maximize your chances of winning. If you follow this set of mathematics it is most certainly possible to win over the long term. I should know, I've made my main income for the past 2 years playing low-limit texas hold'em."
"Oh [censored], did I say texus holdum? I meant omahah, which is more of a niche game. Reasons why I don't think it's BS- 1.) My friend is a math major at MIT--he knows what he's talking about. 2.) He's not the kind of person who would just make something up. 3.) Many players at the $10 omahah tables at partypoker are newbs. 4.) People don't have time to catch on to your strategy because you're constantly moving to new tables. 5.) Omahah is a simple game--a patient and methodical stategy *will* win, even if it's robotic. My bad about saying it was "holdum" though, that was a mistake. I doubt a similar strategy would work for holdum as it's (afaik) a more complicated game."
"That makes a lot more sense. In Omaha, you get four cards instead of two"

WTF

[lastsamurai]

MY MONEY IS ON R2-D2

[Ryan11]

Saapbo should enter this ;0)

[Sponger15SB]

This tourney is bullshit cause the guys who made the video game stacked weren't allowed to enter.



...errr, ok picture what I just wrote but more official and informative.

[Rosie5]

Paulp had a great idea on how to deal with this

Basically, it would work like this, every time you fold your 15th or 20th hand or maybe even every half hour, you get a "task" given by the server and must solve it or enter a word displayed on the screen. If done correctly it stops bots, I've seen this employed in online rpgs and free mail services.

a bot can do a lot but it can't read words off a screen when the words have been distorted and have a grid over them.

try to register an account on Yahoo.com, you will get a random set of numbers you must re-enter into a box. This completely abolishes botting. There's no way for a program to read the text

http://ab.login.yahoo.com/img/ML1xaO...v3.R.yaZaC.jpg

I would bet everything I have that one day, when you log into partypoker, you will start getting random prompts. No question

[Nigel]

This has already happened at Party.

Nigel

[Rosie5]

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This has already happened at Party.

Nigel

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really where? i never noticed anything and I've played 2k hands this week