1. #1
    19th Hole
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    Online Poker Sites Trying to Deal Out Poker Bots

    Online Poker Sites Trying to Deal Out Poker Bots



    A poker player sits hunched over his computer, frantically trying to read the behavior of his opponents, looking for all-too-human habits and weaknesses that will give him the edge in betting. Unfortunately, the opponent he's trying to read could well not be human. Welcome to the world of poker robots, commonly known as poker bots.

    Even since the supercomputer Deep Blue defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov and Watson won Jeopardy, the ability of a robot to dominate a human in a game has been increasingly obvious. Now, poker "bots" are for sale over the Internet. They allow anyone with a PC and the ability to follow directions to set up a bot to play one of the panoply of on-line poker sites such as PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and PartyPoker.

    The sites are fighting back, though. According to The New York Times, PokerStars and other sites will refuse playing privileges to those they determine are bots. Happily, many if not all of the publicly available poker bots are unable to adequately mimic human behavior, and so can be recognized for what they are.

    Many are also unable to play well enough to make money against shrewd human opponents, so caveat emptor. An industry consultant told the Times that over 90% of the programs are losing money.

    But with the rapid advancements being made in artificial intelligence, how much longer can this be the case? The field is being advanced by hard science, as teams from various colleges attempt to win an annual bot-poker tournament held as part of a yearly conference on artificial intelligence. Last year, the winner reigned victorious after 89.4 million hands of Texas Hold'em.

    Many a fortune has been lost by our human inability to calculate odds on the fly, something computers excel at. Once they master the art of the bluff, on-line gaming could become a sucker bet. This would be great news for brick and mortar casinos
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    sinmiedo
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    BODOG STILL LOADED WITH THEM COSTING ME AND AN ENORMUS AMOUNT OF PLAYERS HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS MOSTLY MADE PLAYING THE GAME HONESTLY.
    TABASCO TIM
    MIKE 219
    TPHON
    SCHLINGAM
    AND MANY MORE
    are very hapy making money on the cash tables, they never play torunamnets or sng, where i have been making succesful advances, but the cash tables as i wrote to Bodogbecky are out of my reach till is not only proven but, the illigally money made by them is retourned to the play.
    it will probably never hapens, but it worth writing about it.

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    BeerDog99
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    Pokerstars has a challenge/response mechanism that operates very similar to web site forms that require the person to type in specific characters shown (presented so a computer would have a hard time answering).

    I can't imagine that would be too hard for Bodog to implement. If they were serious about combatting bots.

    That all said, I still do not have an idea on how to truly tell a bot. I have seen many players on Fulltilt and Pokerstars that, IMHO, play like bots and never speak.

    What are the defining characteristics of bots that you have seen?

    Cheers

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    mighty maron
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    Bots make the sites money in two ways. More rake as in more players is one. On some sites, the bots are actually employed by the site and their winnings go directly to the site. Unless specficly caught, they continue to play.

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