Re:How A.I. Conquered Poker
by JacobThreeThree on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:51PM
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>You are worried that people will cheat in online poker, or what?
The norm for online chess is to not play for money, whereas the norm for online poker is to play for money, often for large sums.
Of course the game with higher stakes is more likely to attract cheaters.
> whereas the norm for online poker is to play for money, often for large sums
That is definitely not the norm. Most people are playing recreationally. Heck it is illegal to pay poker online with real money in 44/50 states in the US.
Yeah, but playing poker for not real money is a very different game. Players have no incentive to not take huge risks, so it is a completely different game.
Re:How A.I. Conquered Poker
by eurasiantiger on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @05:57PM
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And how do you suppose they enforce that?
For poker, people can still play face to face, and it being a game of mixed strategies means it's probably a lot less important that poker bots are better than people than in chess. Top chess players use the computers to set up preparation bombs on their opponents, with rebuttals to moves for specific positions created by the computers. That doesn't work in a game of imperfect information and mixed strategies.