poker.com – I have to admit that I really don’t think a computer could ever play No Limit poker successfully. Recently there was news of a computer programme beating a player at limit poker which is interesting in itself, but that is a very different prospect to No Limit poker.
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I think with Limit poker you could play textbook perfect poker (which a computer could feasibly be programmed to do) and you would be very successful. I’m not saying that it takes little skill to play Limit poker but I think the skills are much more straightforward and would be easier to programme into a computer. The problem with doing the same with No Limit is that there is so much more to consider when playing the game.
I have a WSOP game for my computer in fact, and have won many bracelets as my character. The reason for this is not that I am necessarily capable of beating hundreds of players in such events on a regular basis. But I am capable of beating hundreds of computer controlled players simply because I am far more intelligent than a computer.
A computer knows only what it is programmed into it, and once I work out this programmed style of play and find the chinks in it’s armour I can win most of the time. if it were a person I was playing, they would see what I was doing to counteract their play, and then alter their play to stifle what I was doing successfully. But of course a computer has no plan B and it’s gameplan can be probed and weaknesses found.
I shall change my first statement however, I do not think a computer will be able to be consistently successful at No Limit poker, within the next ten years. But I cannot rule out vast leaps in the development of artificial intelligence of course.