Re:I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app wit...
by reillychase on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @05:47PM
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I'm curious if it's possible to make a profitable GPT Poker bot, I have seen a few GitHub repos but not experimented with it. Obviously legal/ethical concerns there aside. In my experience you see a lot of the same names when playing and they could be bots. But you can interact with people in the game by chat or "throwing" objects at them in the game like a horseshoe or cards. And when they react back maybe that's a sign they're not bots. Regardless you want to avoid playing with the good people and seek out the bad players aka fish so you can play against them instead. Table selection is key.
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Re:I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app wit...
by ogig on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @06:01PM
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Given how awful LLM are at chess, I'd say GPT sucks at poker. Making a profitable bot using state of the art poker software, like stockfish for chess? That's already done.
Re:I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app wit...
by yunwal on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @06:38PM
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The bot would realistically be GPT interacting with the web application and calling out to a poker engine for any calculations/decisions.
Re:I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app wit...
by noitpmeder on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @11:39PM
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But .. what .. why??
Sure you could use an AI agent to write that code, but it wouldn't actually being that AI agent in the hot loop constantly coordinating your UI interactions with the poker engine...
Comments like these make me feel a bit safer from AI in my engineering job. People think it's a perfect no brainer fit for so many inane situations.
Re:I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app wit...
by mrklol on Thursday October 09, 2025 @04:03AM
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you could use it as an addition for e.g. chatting, emoting or whatever to look more like a human.
Re:I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app wit...
by yunwal on Saturday October 11, 2025 @09:52PM
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You just made up a whole different thing. Nobody is talking about writing code with an AI here, they’re talking about using it to interact with a poker website.
Re:I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app wit...
by TrainedMonkey on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @06:48PM
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Bots mostly don't play fair. One strategy I've seen is having multiple bots play passively to minimize losses, unless at least 2 get placed in a single game. In that case the bots can share information bully the rest of the table by playing aggressively.