The author is right that poker is like chess, but for the wrong reasons. Poker like chess, at the top levels is dominated by machines. Certain variants of poker

The author is right that poker is like chess, but for the wrong reasons. Poker like chess, at the top levels is dominated by machines. Certain variants of poker, namely heads up limit poker have been "solved" for a long time. Other games such as no limit heads up are increasingly moving in that direction. It has zero to do with physical tells, instead it is mathematics. Ironically there have been accusations of cheating in live poker because a good player did NOT play like the solver suggested in a particular situation. The accusation was since they were a good player and they deviated from what the solver suggested, they must have marked the cards.