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Old 01-16-2006, 05:10 PM
Rudbaeck Rudbaeck is offline
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Default Re: Which Game Requires Most Talent?

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Is it really possible to make an unbeatable bot?

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Yes, but only for HU play.

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I'm sure the bot could eventually figure out your bluffing frequency and certain tendencies, but on the other hand a human player is aware of how he is percieved by the bot and can act accordingly in certain situations.

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Now you are assuming that the unbeatable bot also plays optimally against you. It does not. A bot that can extract the maximum from you HU is still so far away that it's not credible threat in the foreseeable future.

The math finds a pair of strategies where each player loses the minimum. If one player moves away from this equilibrium point he loses more, no matter in which direction he moves. So unless you play the same strategy as the bot you lose. But you won't lose much, as the bot doesn't capitalize on any specific mistakes you make.

Dynamically figuring out where you wandered off to, and finding a new strategy that exploits you for the maximum based on your new strategy is immensely more complex than this.

Given a long enough sample size Phil Ivey is never going to win against this bot. But Ivey will bust you alot faster than the bot will.

A bot that busts you as fast as Ivey does is just a pipe dream at the moment.

See the difference between Ivey and the bot now?
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