Bots only win at 1v1 limit poker. No bot can play professional no-limit poker, especially at a full table.
Again, the best humans are much, much better at poker than the best bots. The idea that optimal NL poker is computationally solvable and not demanding is just wrong. No one has solved it yet.
Yup. There are also many more situations in limit poker that have a clearly optimal play than no-limit poker.
In limit poker, you have the choice of check/call/raise/fold, where in no-limit poker the raising is fully continuous and you almost definitely don’t have the complete information to make the actual optimal play across the full possible range of bets.
Phil, if you wanted to read the best literature on this, The University of Alberta Poker group (run by the guy who weakly solved checkers, I think?), made a bot years ago that wins 1v1 limit poker against professional players and they keep writing about it while probably winning millions of dollars secretly on the internet. Or possibly they are too true of academics to actually run bots.
Bots only win at 1v1 limit poker. No bot can play professional no-limit poker, especially at a full table.
Again, the best humans are much, much better at poker than the best bots. The idea that optimal NL poker is computationally solvable and not demanding is just wrong. No one has solved it yet.
This doesn’t make sense to me. Why would no-limit be much harder than limit?
I’m no expert, but I expect it’s because the game tree is sparser in limit than in no-limit.
Yup. There are also many more situations in limit poker that have a clearly optimal play than no-limit poker.
In limit poker, you have the choice of check/call/raise/fold, where in no-limit poker the raising is fully continuous and you almost definitely don’t have the complete information to make the actual optimal play across the full possible range of bets.
Phil, if you wanted to read the best literature on this, The University of Alberta Poker group (run by the guy who weakly solved checkers, I think?), made a bot years ago that wins 1v1 limit poker against professional players and they keep writing about it while probably winning millions of dollars secretly on the internet. Or possibly they are too true of academics to actually run bots.
They’re working on no-limit poker now though, and I’d be surprised if bots haven’t passed humans within 5 years. For now, humans still dominate. http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/publications.html
I’m no expert, but I expect it’s because the game tree in limit is helpfully pruned by the betting rules relative to the game tree of no-limit.
I believe that they can win LIMIT poker at a full table; does not have to be 1-1 in that case.
Out of curiousity, if computers were better to become poker players than humans (this is highly likely, in the long run), what would you say then?
Stop playing poker online unless you have a bot to play for you or a software tool to enhance and regulate your play.