How far has NL poker come? How far do we have to go? (abstract/long)

[w_alloy]

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Yeah alright, so you're talking about dominated strategies. Maybe I'm overestimating the level of play by Antonius, aba and co. but I would still estimate that the biggest mortal human player would still achieve the highest win-rate in the whole playerpool using exploititive strategies against his exploititive opponents compared to what the bot would be making against the overall playerpool.

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I would wager that at low stakes, there are many pros who would outperform the bot. But at almost all high stakes games, and even most online medium stakes games, especially if players didnt have prior knoweldge of the nature of what they were playing against, I think the bot would clearly outperform everyone in the world.

Are people familiar with backgammon, and how the introduction of a bot that could beat everyone changed what people thought of as dominant strategies? And backgammon is a simpler game that has been around much much longer than NL holdem.