Bots and the future of online poker

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How much experience do you really have with a specifically k82r board. My quick (possibly wrong) calc shows that flop coming up 171 times every 10^6 hands.

There's just no way you will have more experience than a bot with a gigantic database.

That said, its not really an easy task because popular lines change with times so the bot's sample size is never gonna be that huge either (though obv bigger than a human's).


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Yes, your last point is exactly what I am saying. I can not have enough of a sample, and neither does the bot. But I have common sense, when I find myself in uncharted waters I can search through my head and select the most applicable rule out of the thousands of poker rules in my head. I combine the rule with quick EV calculations.

The bot, however, can not pick the right rule. It may pick some rule, and perform an EV calc based on it, but it won't be right. Its human opponent will instantly pick out what rule it violated, and will exploit it.

This all assumes poker is a "large" problem. If it is a large problem, the bots are dead.