<<But for Doug Polk, who largely retired from poker in 2017 after winning tens of millions of dollars, the change solvers have wrought is more existential. “I f

<<But for Doug Polk, who largely retired from poker in 2017 after winning tens of millions of dollars, the change solvers have wrought is more existential. “I feel like it kind of killed the soul of the game,” Polk says, changing poker “from who can be the most creative problem-solver to who can memorize the most stuff and apply it.”>> I wrote probably the first online texas holdem game, played on IRC, around 1994. Back then in rec.gambling blackjack teams were forming and instead of joining a blackjack team I started to play poker, because it was more fun than counting cards. I wrote the game so I could play against other people and was immediately a winning player in low limit games of the time in lake charles and vegas. However even in the 90s, it was about statistics. I do regret not allowing people to play for money (people were constantly asking). Even back then the primitive bots were mostly killing human players.