In regards to bots...
 

Check out:

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33003/98/

"Of course there isn’t much fun to a playing Checkers when you know you are about to lose, so the scientist has turned his computers onto a much more lofty goal … beating humans at Poker."

Discuss.

Re: In regards to bots...
 

Checkers, like backgammon and chess, is WAAAAYYYYYY easier to program a bot for. This is becuase it's an open-information game. You know you're opponents hand and can compute accordingly. Since opponents' hands are hidden in poker, creating a perfect bot is impossible.

Nonetheless, someone like this trying to create a poker bot is no good.