Online Poker Played by Bots?

I've just read one of the most interesting narratives I've read for a while. Concern is growing inch online confabulate suite and intelligence groupings devoted to poker that sophisticated card-playing automatons – known as “bots” in the terminology of the Web – are being used on commercial gambling sites to fleece newcomers, the strategy-impaired and maybe even above-average players.

A bot capable of playing against the best world definitely already exists. The University of Alberta’s Computer Poker Research Group have developed an artificially intelligent zombi known as “Vex Bot,” capable of playing poker at the maestro level, though as yet it can only use its gambling mastermind to two-player games. Vex Bot have been used by research workers to prove the frontiers of unreal intelligence – and as the footing for a commercial poker tutorial program, Poki’s Poker Academy -- but some fearfulness it may go a design for computer programmers with more than than baleful motives.

Given that games like Hold'em are quite simple adequate (and the players bad enough), it do sense to me that a quite simple bot could take a human player who can't work out the likelihood of winning each manus correctly, to the cleaners.

As online gambling additions will we see more of this? Volition people start downloading programmes to run on their desktops to state them what to make with each hand? I believe it will kind of return the merriment out of playing online if it goes a diagnostic test of 'my bot against your bot' rather than 'skill'.

Skeptics – and there are many – argue the complexnesses of the game and the changing schemes guarantee that creative activity of a programme that tin “read” opponents’ cards using silver screen scanning techniques and react in existent time is old age away at best.