Re: Is there a perfect NLHE Bot? Could there be?
Theoretically, you could train a neural net to play NL at an above-human level. The most important difference between this and most of what has been discussed, is that instead of being programmed with formulas and so forth, it would play intuitively, the same way top humans play. We say that NLHE is about psychology, but what we really mean by this is pattern recognition. "Reading" people is nothing more than recognizing paterns in their body language and betting patterns. A computer could theoretically pick up on patterns far more subtle and complex than the human brain could process. Even a player like Phil Ivey, who is probably unreadable to any living person, would have detectable traits and could be defeated. The neural net would be infinitely adaptable to any level or style of play.
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