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Re:Robot wars break out on poker sites by daeken on Friday November 12, 2010 @02:16PM (#1898800)
> it knows with 100% certainty that it has an unbeatable hand

While your example is a good one, the bot actually doesn't have an unbeatable hand. Another player could have trips or 4/5 of a straight flush and hit a better hand (quads or a straight flush) on the turn/river. Or the board could pair twice and give someone a full house. Unlikely in any case, but not out of the realm of possibilities by any means.

Re:Robot wars break out on poker sites by icey on Friday November 12, 2010 @02:20PM (#1898823)
Haha damnit, you're right. Thanks for pointing that out!
Re:Robot wars break out on poker sites by jpwagner on Friday November 12, 2010 @02:49PM (#1898965)
anyone with 130k hands would've caught that :)

but seriously, he means if the board is like: 2c 3c 7c Tc 4h, (not that he'd get much value from the guy with the lone Jc, though)

think of how easy squeezing is with two colluding bots.

Re:Robot wars break out on poker sites by icey on Friday November 12, 2010 @02:52PM (#1898978)
The problem was that I changed the example after typing everything up. The first contrived example I came up with used a hand that Bot 1 wouldn't have realistically thrown away. My fault for not proof-reading :D