$100,000 Poker Bot Tournament 356
Costa Galanis writes "The LA Times is reporting that a poker tournament will be held where engineers will be able to pit their automatic poker-playing programs against each other in a tournament similar to the upcoming World Series of Poker main event, with a 100,000 dollar cash prize for the winning program. The article mentions how the recent rise in popularity of poker has encouraged many to try and create the poker equivalent of chess' Big Blue, the chess playing computer program that defeated the world's top chess player in a widely publicized event, and also talks about how many engineers also are trying to make bots that are good enough to play and beat human players for money in online casinos."
What's The Catch...? (Score:2, Funny)
overlords (Score:2, Funny)
Eliza (Score:3, Funny)
The bot... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What's The Catch...? (Score:5, Funny)
And by that, you mean the house definitely wins every time.
Be easy to beat if its anything like... (Score:4, Funny)
1. Let openents Place you their bets.
2. Place a stupidly huge bet.
3. They fold.
4. Profit!
Re:Eliza (Score:5, Funny)
Lots of problems tho (Score:4, Funny)
I think what is required here is clear and concise rules on what kind of weaponry the bots get to wield.
Also, I don't think bots should get to wear sunglasses.
Re:What's The Catch...? (Score:3, Funny)
However this is more like.... (Score:2, Funny)
I can see the commentary now:
And program one, dubbed guido, pulls into the lead as program 4, dubbed vinnie, goes all in on a lousy full house.
Madden esque voice: I still say that somehow they have found a way to pull binary cards from their sleeve's.
Gruden esque voice: What they are doing is a standard bit swap in the packet back to the dealer server tricking it into thinking it didn't really know what it dealt to the player client in question. It's a rather common method of attack.
What would a program want $100000 for? (Score:5, Funny)
What would a computer program do with $100,000? Build a cluster to run itself on?
Re: Bluffing. (Score:2, Funny)
And in case you are not playing online (a bit off-topic, I suppose), that is where your poker-face comes into play. Now for humans, a bit of Botox(tm) might help. But for bots, putting up a poker-face would be hard... without a face. Or would that make it easy? Will future bot programs include code for moving robotic face muscles? Will poker playing robots actually like playing poker, or will they hate their job? Will they drink beer and eat peanuts while they're at it?
Damn, my face... eh, head starts to hurt.Re:What would a program want $100000 for? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:overlords (Score:4, Funny)
SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!!!!!!"
Sorry, man. I promised myself I'd do that after I had heard that joke for the millionth time.
Schedule of events... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Um... pokerbot will always win (Score:2, Funny)
here's a list of the things... (Score:5, Funny)
1. When to hold 'em
2. When to fold 'em
3. When to walk away
4. When to run
5. Never count your money: When you're sitting at the table, there'll be time enough for counting, when the dealings done.
Re:What would a program want $100000 for? (Score:5, Funny)
two chicks at the same time
Re:overlords (Score:5, Funny)
Pssh. You're too young. Just wait till you're asked to take the oath for when you hear it for the billionth time.
AI AI CTHULHU FTHAGN!
Re:That's not the point of bluffing. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:overlords (Score:4, Funny)
You try to say that right when you're in non-euclidea- - Oh my God the tentacle came out of WHE-
NO CARRIER
Re:What would a program want $100000 for? (Score:5, Funny)
Wouldn't that be two chips at the same time?
Re:Deep Blue (Score:1, Funny)
"Deep Blue", OTOH, actually calculated something useful.
But don't forget the most important rule of poker (Score:2, Funny)
Re: Bluffing. (Score:3, Funny)
He still owes me a hard drive.
Re:Texus Holdum (Score:2, Funny)
I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this comment is too narrow to contain.
Re:What would a program want $100000 for? (Score:2, Funny)