[PoorTom]

The issue isn't so much that an individual bot might be good - I'm not convinced that there's any reason a bot has any inherent advantage over a human player just because it has access to a wide range of statistics. I can think of reasons why relying wholly on these stats is potentially a disadvantage. Anyway, as above, poker is not a game of complete information.

The real problem is proliferation - both because a single good winning bot can be multiplied infinitely, and because even marginal, break-even TAG bots can be multiplied endlessly (e.g. to get rakeback). And of course the bots can play 24/7 and never get tired.

Ultimately it just means a higher and higher proportion of tight, generally decent/difficult players relative to fish. Which is the real problem, not that the bots are fantastically good.