In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Fant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
On 7/26/07, steve uurtamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> There is certainly more money to be made in poker than in go.
>>
> Yes, but its also more difficult.
do you mean this in a casual, unsubstantiated way, or in an exact way?
My feeling is that there are a lot of people making a lot of money in
online poker by having a bot play for them. They don't like to talk
about it because they don't want their situation to change. I myself
made a go at it. My bot was able to play fully automated 7 card stud
on ParadisePoker.com. It had to read the graphical screen to
understand what was going on and when it was it's turn, etc. It
played decently, but it was too easy for the other players to catch-on
to it's strategy. Eventually I lost interest. That was about 4 years
ago.
Commercial poker servers forbid the use of bots, and invest some effort
in detecting and punishing them (by confiscating their funds). To
encourage human customers, they boast of how effective they are at this.
People who use poker bots generally keep quiet about it.
So when poker bots are discussed, both sides have an interest in
downplaying their prevalence. This results in a consensus which IMHO is
likely to be some way wide of the truth.
Nick
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