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A program that can think - poker software
With chess I don't want to trivialize it but it's just a matter of calculation, he said. With poker, you really need to write a program that can think about the game and reason.
The solution, in the case of the Vex Bot, was adding a layer of artificial intelligence over its ability to calculate probabilities.
It will show you things that no human player has ever shown you before, Billings said of the latest incarnation of the bot, which also has the ability to model its opponent's behavior. One of the biggest advantages that programs have is that they have no fear, no shame. Humans can be intimidated. They will back off in the face of a very aggressive player. A bot will not. It has no compunction about doing whatever it will take to win. It will raise you with any two cards if it thinks that it has a very slight advantage based on your history. And it can induce a lot of anger and emotional upset. These things are 'tilt monsters'.
Rao, who served as one of the testers of Vex Bot, attests to its skills.
It was a formidable foe, he said of his initial encounter with the bot, before the addition of its new feature. I can see that (the improved) bot, given enough hands, will become an absolute world beater.
While the Vex Bot is undeniably at the head of its class, the mere existence of bots is a sensitive subject for operators of poker sites, all of which appear to have policies prohibiting their use.
I can't imagine that any good can come of this interview, Bob Wolf of TiltWare LLC, a Los Angeles-based software developer that licenses its poker game to a company that operates the Fulltiltpoker.com site, wrote in rejecting to an interview request.
Operators of other poker sites and creators of poker software interviewed by MSNBC.com said they have been able to defeat bots by monitoring the sites for suspicious patterns of play and tweaking software to foil the commercial bots.
Source: BonusGambler.com Editors' Choice
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