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Re:Matt Maroon: Why I Quit Playing Poker For A Living by imsteve on Monday December 03, 2007 @09:35PM (#85798)
The poker bots out there mostly suck because they don't need to be great to win lots of money from the weak players. The real problem the bots face is getting around anti-bot security measures.

But, although almost no effort has been put into poker bots, they're already pretty damn close:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/25/289607.asp...

If poker bots analyzed a massive database of how pros play like humans or the chess bots do then I'm certain that the poker bots would blow you away.

> No poker bot ever made could come anywhere close to me in...

You'll be seeing this quote again:)

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Re:Matt Maroon: Why I Quit Playing Poker For A Living by mattmaroon on Monday December 03, 2007 @10:41PM (#85807)
>The poker bots out there mostly suck because they don't need to be great to win lots of money from the weak players.

That's dumb. They'd win 5x the money if they were great.

>You'll be seeing this quote again:)

I meant made yet, maybe I should have specified. I've no doubt that computers will one day overtake humans. It just is nowhere near having happened yet.

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Re:Matt Maroon: Why I Quit Playing Poker For A Living by rms on Monday December 03, 2007 @09:48PM (#85802)
The poker bots right now are also only good at heads up.
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