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I don't think this guy knew enough probability/stats/game theory to write a profitable poker bot. Note that he was enumerating a lot of manual decisions in Exce
by ramanujan 17y ago
I don't think this guy knew enough probability/stats/game theory to write a profitable poker bot. Note that he was enumerating a lot of manual decisions in Excel. That's not going to scale, you want a probabilistic model and a game state evaluation function (ideally one trained on many past games).
- jacquesm 17y agoAuthor == OP, and if you read to the end you'll see he did get it to work, but he got shut down pdq.
- keefe 17y agoHe got a heads up bot working, which is a totally different animal than a full table ring. U of Alberta has a group discussing poker as an open AI issue : http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/ http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/ NLHE is not checkers, it's genuinely difficult to crack. That's one of the things that makes it fun.
- matt1 17y agoFWIW, in the beginning I thought it would be easy enough to do with simple conditional statements. That proved to be way too difficult/impossible. The HUSNG bot made heavy use of statistics, data mining, and expected value calculations.