alt Hacker NewsYeah. Poker isn’t actually hard to play perfectly if you’re writing a bot. The hard part is making it look authentic and not emit any patterns or other signals that could be detected in the data.
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It's exceedingly hard to play perfectly. Nobody knows how except in limited toy games, like heads up at 7BBs or less. And perfect play varies drastically from opponent to opponent, this isn't blackjack.
> Poker isn’t actually hard to play perfectly if you’re writing a bot.
How so? It's not like the entire game state is visible to all players, and a big part of poker is playing the other players.
So it's a cat and mouse game like most things, except the spread between the cat and the mouse is quite high but is still (somewhat) in favour of the mouse as the online poker world currently stands?
> Poker isn’t actually hard to play perfectly if you’re writing a bot
Writing a winning poker bot is not trivial, you are unknowingly spreading false information.