Re: Poker bots and HU Limit
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Vexbot switched up on me a few sessions ago and started betting out every flop and 3-betting any raise when in the BB. It beat me that session but I've beat it every time since then once I figured out what was going on.
I wonder if online bots do any kind of opponent modeling like that.
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In my limited experience of simulations, bots are not very good at changing gears. There could be some fairly complex bots out there that do a better job at this, though.
The one thing that's somewhat amusing to me in retrospect is that I got interested in poker because a couple of my old comp. sci. buddies were interested in creating a bot in the summer of 2004. So I looked into the game and how to play.
These guys are really smart (but somewhat misguided, I think), and they have been developing this stuff for awhile getting virtually no where. I haven't talked to them in 3 months, but I doubt they're going anywhere w/ their FR LHE attempt esp. now that the landscape has changed to SH quite a bit. Most of the time they spent procrastinating and working on a generic poker room interface. A couple of months was spent waiting on me to take the lead, but I was busy reseaching the matter to see if it was worth my time. They eventually found a co-worker from Microshaft to take my role.
Instead I started learning poker and dumped the whole idea and decided not to join their "team". They wanted me to be the "project manager". I came to the conclusion that it was way too much work...not to mention that I now somewhat have a bias against real money bots now that I at least a little skilled. It's funny how life works.
The only thing that I've been hearing from this group is that it's always "almost ready to go live." Sounds like any other software project I've worked on that gets moved back. Eventually, they'll have to move on or get somewhere.
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