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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?"
Hmmm that's why fred#3079-beta1 would never answer any of my questions.
and explain why I am broke.
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.
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?
Nah, you should haved used names like twisted.jpg and grind.jpg.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.