Re:The Day MAME Saved My Ass
by JonnieCache on Sunday December 12, 2010 @03:46PM
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Apparently writing poker bots is miserable.
Poker AI that can beat the average human you will find online is pretty trivial to write. Running profitable poker bots involves spending 90% of your time touching up your scraping algorithms to cope with the ever changing DOM of the casino sites, which shifts dynamically to prevent exactly this kind of thing.
With the level of programming skills required you can earn way more money with a legitimate job.
Poker AI that can beat the average human you will find online is pretty trivial to write. Running profitable poker bots involves spending 90% of your time touching up your scraping algorithms to cope with the ever changing DOM of the casino sites, which shifts dynamically to prevent exactly this kind of thing.
With the level of programming skills required you can earn way more money with a legitimate job.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008kj9m
That programme in the link can be had for download if you look. Don't worry I've already paid for it, its on me.