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Poker Bot Testing

Technology is certainly changing in the online casino and poker industry. Gaming software developers are constantly challenged to come up with new cutting edge games that will draw in players and keep them coming back to the online casinos for more play. Now though, research into poker bots could mean a that internet poker players have to significantly hone and alter their skills in order to win against the poker bot. A current “man v. machine” constant was admittedly tough for two internet and land-based poker pros.

Universities around the world have begun to research how to design a poker bot that is can genuinely imitate the game. Up to this point, when online casino poker players choose to play against a computer, they have the advantage because bluffing is such an integral part of the game. Just earlier this year an Australian University announced they had found a way to teach the bots to bluff in the game rather than play the statistical odds. This new technology that allowed the bots to learn the game of online casinos poker without any pre-programmed rules in future years may revolutionize the internet poker industry.

In the “man v. machine” contest, the Univeristy of Alberta used Laak and Eslami, two recognized poker professionals, as the human team, and they had four sessions of poker play to try and come out ahead of the poker bot. And the results may just surprise online casino players – the poker pros just barely managed to beat the poker bot. Rather than counting on the fact that traditional computer software plays by statistics, the pros commented that they were forced to adapt their traditional poker tactics to accommodate the poker bots style.

Even though the poker bot did lose against the human team, the narrow margin that the human online casino players won with indicates that the research and efforts put into designing and programming the poker bot are leading in the right direction.