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Originally Posted by jackvance
It would absolutely kill online poker btw. If bussinessmen can pay minimum wage to let idiots play winning poker, even if sites can 100% prevent bots from playing the game, by just copying the moves another computer tells them, the game is dead. Or atleast it changes to a new dimension of being able to have the most adaptable bots that can beat other bots, leaving actual skill to live games.
It'd change things for sure. If for no other reason, some of the mystique of arguing over a hand history would go away because we would have pokerbot2000 to settle all disputes. Understanding the why behind those moves and what it means for your range in general might still be interesting, but it would be different.
It'd probably be possible for the site to block bot usage, even as a 3rd party reference. Blackgammon is an example of a solved game that you can still make money off of, even online. So much of the optimization would be centered on, not only the concurrent hand history, but all hand histories you have on the players in the hand, so that unless you could have it hooked up in some semi-direct way to the software, you'd have to partake in so much data input that you'd never be able to refer to pokerbot in time. They'd maybe have to ban HUDs, though.
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