[vypremik]

I have found a few games with some degree of value to them. What I mean is that some part of the system's game is a bit of a challenge. But I doubt there will ever be a comprehensive, challenging computer program.

First, most poker games are made for entertainment, not for a challenge.

Second, if a program tries to make the "right" move every time. It becomes way to easy to bluff it. Conversely, if a program tries to bluff, it is generally easy to pick on its habits, or to just fold until you get a monster and then slam it.

Third, the human mind has never been duplicated by any computer (and never will be) and poker is a mind game.

It is possible to make a programmed instruction type of game that has a fixed set of hands that react in an intelligent way to you over those select hands. It has been done. The program reacts in a very appropriate way to you and can adjust itself over those limited hands, depending on how you acted on previous hands.

But that is just a human programming a limited number of possibilities into a short-term scenario. Full intelligent human play just can't be dupicated.