I think you miss the point of this tournament, though. The goal isn't to make the strongest possible poker bot, merely to compare how good LLMs are relative to

I think you miss the point of this tournament, though. The goal isn't to make the strongest possible poker bot, merely to compare how good LLMs are relative to each other on a task which (on the level they play it) requires a little opponent modeling, a little reasoning, a little common sense, a little planning etc.