Card-playing bots could doom online poker
August 8, 2008
PORTLAND, Ore. — The premise underlying online poker is that all players are humans. But with the growing availability of free poker “bot” downloads, it is becoming difficult to detect whether a player is real or a possibly unbeatable bot.
“It wasn’t until mid-2000, [when] an algorithm was developed, that [bots] could even come close to a competent player. But now online computer poker playing may become a thing of the past,” said Ian Fellows, a researcher at the University of California at San Diego and author of the open-source poker bot, “Fell Omen.”
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