Originally Posted by shazbox

I've been thinking of developing a program that plays hold'em for a while now. Something of the sort that would read all sorts of info from poker tracker and figure out certain things that way. I also need a big project to get my honors degree (computer science).

It wouldn't necessarily be a bot, as it wouldn't be designed to make all the decisions in the poker software itself. Probably just consist of me entering in my cards, cards on the board, people at the table, etc. And then having the program chose a move (which hopefully with enough work is the right one).

Using poker track would obviously add an extra dimension to it, as it would make it more of a dynamic system. Like, if you're on the button, it is folded to you and the blinds have folded to a steal attempts 100% of the time, you raise. If it is a number other than 100% I suppose you would have to do the math to see if it is a profitable move to try and steal, or even just to raise and play the pot anyway, etc. etc.