[Peter_rus]

With futher grow of AI and computers the problem with poker-automating is similar with problem with chess or backgammon. Both games are close to death for commercial purposes due to close to perfect algoritms. An argument for "game of open information" isn't enough, cause vast amount of simulations can cause this lack of info close to "completely enough" i believe. If so - online and live poker will be dead, cause once it's real online - more people will (as already do for some house games) will bring miniaturized devices with them.

I dunno about trading but i've heard - winning strategies there depends on a plenty of info. Who has more info and can handle it right - wins, who lesser - lose. So in poker will win bots who has more info about opponent bots.

Pure mathematical strategies already cannot win in trading markets. So will be with poker industry probably. It will either die or bot-full (and real concur will be between bots not humans) or there'll we be invented more games, more complex, than Texas Holdem thus not computerized easy for current level of AI.

I'm not voting for bots, cause i play myself and win good money, but i understand that really cool AI can win money from me probably already, probably in future (close?). But i also understand that we cannot defend against bots-infesting online and live. This is a law of progress i guess. AI can make a lot of things better than a human today and will make a lot morethings better than a human tomorrow. We can only make this progress slower like oil companies force invention of new kinds of fuel to stay as slow as possible. Protecting of "oldered" (i don't know right word in English) business, the thing we're actually do now by berating the bot-makers won't last long enough. Probably a couple of years.

My position is stay quiet and play while i can make money, building a bankroll for further games in my life, not especially gambling ones.