If someone wants to do it, I btw could offer useful advice, including almost-finished algorithms on how the bot could play profitably.
Haven’t done it myself, but have looked into it. Stopped short of doing the boring stuff of coding some stuff up (I don’t really do programming), and of course there’s also the ethical question of whether I want to screw over pokersites. But it certainly can be done, and I think I’ve already done the parts that could be hard (mostly, coming up with a winning play style that is sufficiently algorithmic).
(BTW, even good bots currently don’t beat good or even mediocre players in most poker variations, but bots can make money playing against bad players, which are abundant.)
I think I’ve already done the parts that could be hard (mostly, coming up with a winning play style that is sufficiently algorithmic).
Have you checked with other people about what they think is hard? Why don’t you think it’s hard to evade detection, by the opponents, the resident software, and the server? (ETA: and were you looking into collusion? do you worry about the signature there?)
I have talked with people who are currently running bots. Most pokersites btw don’t actually really even bother much to detect bots, since driving them out isn’t in their interest unless human players start complaining.
I’m probably not going to publicly comment more than this on this topic.
Isn’t the obvious strategy then to create a set of colluding bots, and try to avoid detection?
Go ahead! But it’s hard.
If someone wants to do it, I btw could offer useful advice, including almost-finished algorithms on how the bot could play profitably.
Haven’t done it myself, but have looked into it. Stopped short of doing the boring stuff of coding some stuff up (I don’t really do programming), and of course there’s also the ethical question of whether I want to screw over pokersites. But it certainly can be done, and I think I’ve already done the parts that could be hard (mostly, coming up with a winning play style that is sufficiently algorithmic).
(BTW, even good bots currently don’t beat good or even mediocre players in most poker variations, but bots can make money playing against bad players, which are abundant.)
Have you checked with other people about what they think is hard?
Why don’t you think it’s hard to evade detection, by the opponents, the resident software, and the server? (ETA: and were you looking into collusion? do you worry about the signature there?)
I have talked with people who are currently running bots. Most pokersites btw don’t actually really even bother much to detect bots, since driving them out isn’t in their interest unless human players start complaining.
I’m probably not going to publicly comment more than this on this topic.