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Online Poker Bots Becoming Problematic?
scumbucket writes "MSNBC has a story about how poker bots have started to appear on internet gambling sites and the implications. It also talks about how a 'master level' poker-playing bot already exists. Could this proliferation of poker-playing bots undermine the almost $1 billion online gambling industry?"
'master level' poker-playing bot
Stop calling me a bot.
Welcome our new metallic gambling over lords.
...with being an ass-hole."
-- Henry Rollins
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have little sympathy for the house when someone figures out a way to beat them.
I wouldn't be surprised at this at all - I've even heard rumors of people playing online chess while using Chessmaster to tell them their moves.
It was, um, a friend of mine...
"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
No, but they can deliver more life-like performances.
-Peter
PS: I say this in spite of the fact that "Chasing Amy" is one of my top 5 favorite movies.
-P
until someone accidentally uses an aimbot, and blows a guy's head off.
It seems that they are obviosly talking about the two legged, two armed kind. Hahaha, that is priceless to think that our there in someone's basement is a "sophisticated robot" capable of playing online poker. I think I'm going to start building one in my garage.
I boycott signatures
I'm the head webmaster and programmer for a popular casino based in the Cayman Islands (although I reside in the US). We use VBScript for all our programming and backend work. We're smart and renamed the cards, so the "ace of spades" is really "5_hearts.jpg"
No one will figure that out.
That's nothing, when I play poker I'm a machine.....an ATM machine :-)
Hmmm that's why fred#3079-beta1 would never answer any of my questions.
and explain why I am broke.
Johnny Chan: I'll see your $30,000 and raise you $5,000
...
Stu Ungar: Call
L33t Pl4y3r69: Call
Dealer: Ok gentlemen, lets see your hands
Johnny Chan: Flush
Stu Ungar: Full House
L33t Pl4y3r: 5 Aces!!! 0WN3D n00bs!!1!11
Dealer:
Johnny Chan: OMG HAX!!
Stu Ungar: WTF?? Lag!!
who the 'bots are. Strike up a conversation with your fellow on-line players. Something like...
Holden: You're in a desert, walking along when - Leon: What one?
Holden: What?
Leon: What desert?
Holden: Doesn't matter what desert it is, it's completely hypothetical.
Leon: Well, how come I'd be there?
Holden: Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you just wanted to get away from it all. Anyway. You're in a desert, walking along when you look down and you see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling toward you. Leon: What's a tortoise?
Holden: You know what a turtle is?
Leon: 'Course!
Holden: Same thing. So you reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon.
Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?
Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
Leon: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, I'M NOT HELPING?
Holden: I mean you're not helping, Leon.
Oh wait, this was about poker? Sorry.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
. <-- the joke
o <-- your head
You: The University of Alberta does a lot of work on poker programs.
Eliza: Please go on.
You: One of their aims is to create a program that can compete in the World Series of Poker. However, poker is such a complex game (for computers, that is) that at the moment the research group would be satisfied if their program would survive the first round.
Eliza: Why do you mention computers?
You: You see, poker is more about beating another person, than about calculations. The best poker players win because they can entice their opponents to make mistakes.
Eliza:Oh, i see poker is more about beating another person than about calculations the best poker players win because they can entice their opponents to make mistakes.
You: This is psychology, not math.
Eliza: Please go on.
You: Computers are notoriously bad at psychology.
Eliza: Why do you mention computers?
"But then again if you think about it... As it stands poker is still a game of chance."
I think I would like to play against you.
In Soviet Russia, I ruled you
Umm .... I beg to differ. You assume that the house does not have a player in the game. This may be true, and this may not be true. personally, I would not trust a poker site further than I could throw a Beowolf Cluster of Cowboy Neils.
----- There are two kinds of people in this world, my friend; those with loaded guns, and those who dig.
There are LAWS to prevent that, dude.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Yeah, the same way Internet porn has undermined the stripper industry.
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make install -not war
Nah, you should haved used names like twisted.jpg and grind.jpg.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Imagine a painting of a BeoWolf cluster of Poker Bots playing cards....