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Old 01-23-2006, 08:58 PM
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Default Re: Is there a perfect NLHE Bot? Could there be?

Pardon me, but if there would be a bot that always makes the correct mathematical move, then...

Would the bot ever check-raise on a bluff?
Would the bot ever raise on a bluff?
Would the bot ever continue betting on the turn on a bluff after its bet got called on the flop?

If you said no to any of these questions... then a perfect bot is not possible. And technically, the mathematical move is to never check-raise bluff if I'm not mistaken. This move requires art, not mathematics. It's what you know about the player and his tendencies.
So the bot can be programmed to check-raise bluff either randomly or everytime against very agressive players. Pros, even halfway decent players, would pick up on this and only bet with good hands, or reraise bluff the bot on a semi-bluff.

Think about it, if the bot is raising on a bluff every hand... that can't be the correct play. If it is raising 20% on a bluff... it is making his moves random, which is also dumb because then you can make a continue bet 25% of the pot and see what the bot does. 75% when he has nothing he will fold when he will be getting 5-to-1 odds.

Also think about if the bot bets preflop, you call. Then bets on the flop, you call. If the bot was bluffing on the flop... how can it know whether to keep bluffing on the turn? I don't think it can. So that means you always call on the flop and see what the bot does on the turn. If it checks, it has nothing, if it bets, it has something.

Bots are definetley more limited than the human mind when it comes to deciphering things. Why? Because a human has created it! Some of you guys act like the bot is going to be an unstopable T-10000 at the poker table... but it really isn't, not if you're a halfway decent poker player.
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