I’ve just read one of the most interesting stories I’ve read for a while. It seems there are a lot of unconfirmed stories that some online poker tables are being frequented by bots designed by smart programmers.
Given that games like Hold’em are quite simple enough (and the players bad enough), it makes sense to me that a quite simple bot could take a human player who can’t work out the odds of winning each hand correctly, to the cleaners.
As online gambling increases will we see more of this? Will people start downloading programs to run on their desktops to tell them what to do with each hand? I think it will kind of take the fun out of playing online if it becomes a test of ‘my bot against your bot’ rather than ‘skill’.
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