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One way to think about it is that the bot plays perfect defense. It's not going to lose. It will however only win what your ineptitude gives it.

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This metaphor was no good. It causes confusion.

I'll instead state what actually happens. The bot knows the perfect play for both parties. It assumes you will make the perfect play every time. None of us will make perfect plays every time, and some will wander pretty far from perfect play. Whenever a human makes mistakes the bot won't charge extra for that.

Lets take an example from limit hold'em. You are UTG with A9s, the by far worst player at the table is David Sklansky. You fold. This is the play the bot would make every time.

Now, even at a table with 9 horrible, horrible calling stations the bot would fold, when the correct play actually is to raise. It's unable to account for their weakness.

It can't take advantage of the specific weakness of your style. This will soemtimes lower the EV of a play, as it assumes and plans for a perfect response. But no bad play the opponent makes can turn a move that would be +EV against a perfect player into a -EV move. (HU any deviation on the part of the opponent will make the play more +EV actually.)


Ps. Please don't turn this into a debate on whether it's right to fold A9s against 9 clones of David Sklansky. It's just an example pulled of my arse. Ds.