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$100,000 Poker Bot Tournament
Costa Galanis writes "The LA Times is reporting that a poker tournament will be held where engineers will be able to pit their automatic poker-playing programs against each other in a tournament similar to the upcoming World Series of Poker main event, with a 100,000 dollar cash prize for the winning program. The article mentions how the recent rise in popularity of poker has encouraged many to try and create the poker equivalent of chess' Big Blue, the chess playing computer program that defeated the world's top chess player in a widely publicized event, and also talks about how many engineers also are trying to make bots that are good enough to play and beat human players for money in online casinos."
Everyone knows that the house always wins in the end.
I for one welcome our new poker playing robot overlords...
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I'm going to submit a modded version of Eliza. It will win by confusing the other bots into submission! :) :P
"Cause the bot always wins. You play long enough, never change the stakes, the bot takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, and then you take the bot." - Danny Ocean
Microsoft Poker on Windows 3.1. Just make a huge bet and all the computers Fold :P
1. Let openents Place you their bets.
2. Place a stupidly huge bet.
3. They fold.
4. Profit!
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Whenever my poker bot goes "all in", my mudd bot somehow gets the idea that it's time to start slaying all of the other players.
I think what is required here is clear and concise rules on what kind of weaponry the bots get to wield.
Also, I don't think bots should get to wear sunglasses.
mafia poker. what does the house get when there are two houses?
I can see the commentary now:
And program one, dubbed guido, pulls into the lead as program 4, dubbed vinnie, goes all in on a lousy full house.
Madden esque voice: I still say that somehow they have found a way to pull binary cards from their sleeve's.
Gruden esque voice: What they are doing is a standard bit swap in the packet back to the dealer server tricking it into thinking it didn't really know what it dealt to the player client in question. It's a rather common method of attack.
What would a computer program do with $100,000? Build a cluster to run itself on?
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And in case you are not playing online (a bit off-topic, I suppose), that is where your poker-face comes into play. Now for humans, a bit of Botox(tm) might help. But for bots, putting up a poker-face would be hard... without a face. Or would that make it easy? Will future bot programs include code for moving robotic face muscles? Will poker playing robots actually like playing poker, or will they hate their job? Will they drink beer and eat peanuts while they're at it?
Damn, my face... eh, head starts to hurt.The Tournament will begin at 9:00 AM, and the grand prize will be presented at 9:03 AM.
There's a $100,000 prize waiting for you. Build a bot and enter the tournament.
Here's a list of the things that a poker playing robot needs to know:
1. When to hold 'em
2. When to fold 'em
3. When to walk away
4. When to run
5. Never count your money: When you're sitting at the table, there'll be time enough for counting, when the dealings done.
Please come sit at my table. Your expert strategy would be a wonder to watch.
No, you see, "Deep Though" spent millions of years to calculate 42.
"Deep Blue", OTOH, actually calculated something useful.
Well I had this great poker playing program, but it's cursor would blink whenever it drew a good hand.
He still owes me a hard drive.
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