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Robot Wars
Robot Wars
     Written by DanR|Monday, 03 May 2010 07:48

Robots or 'bots' as they are called in the online poker world are a hot potato according to the latest poker news If you haven't heard of bots " you will.

Poker bots are nothing new. The concept of artificial opponents was originally developed for the game of chess. Over time, programmers were able to create computerized opponents that can defeat the world's greatest chess-playing humans.

But, No-Limit Hold'em is a far more complicated game to teach a robot than chess. But Limit Hold'em, however, thanks to its primarily mathematical nature, is a bit easier for bots to wrap their silicon heads around.

Beating the bots


Can you outsmart a Robot? Humans look out...

In the USA, programmers at universities of created Polaris, the first bot that can actually give humans some real competition in this variant.

But as of yet, no programmer has managed to create a truly competitive and competent bot for No-Limit Hold'em.

Rob Turner, the owner of www.pokerbotbasics.com (a site dedicated to the creation and legitimization of poker bots on commercial poker sites) is doubtful of such a feat. "It could be years before we see poker bots being unbeatable at the table," says Turner. "Maybe never."

So what's the controversy? Well, some people like bots and some people don't. If a poker room wanted to completely ban bots from its tables it would be fairly easy to do. Yes, bot-busting technology is very simple.

Yet, other bot fanatics want to go further and create their own bots to win them cash. The thing is a bot doesn't have emotions, distractions and can easily plan ahead mathematically something us humans find a little hard to do.
In 2005 Las Vegas hosted the first poker-bot competition, where players sat their personally coded bots at the tables and had them play out until a winner. Maybe this is the future? We'll all be placing our bets through bots.

But what is a Poker Bot?

Well, a poker bot is a very simple program. It reads the poker table window as an image, and each part of the table with information specific to the hand is analyzed and recorded for computation. Once the computer is asked for input (meaning the action is on the bot), it uses its programmed logic to pick the best course of action. Simple, huh?

Not necessarily, because as we know, poker is not straightforward and sometimes the 'best course of action' is difficult to decipher.
So, for now, it seems, us humans are safe. But who knows, one day they could invent a poker genius, a Terminator of the Table that could kill all opponents in a flash. But for now, Phil Ivey is as close as we get to a robotic poker champ.

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