Comments on: Poker Robots? http://truthonthemarket.com/2006/05/09/poker-robots/ Academic commentary on law, business, economics and more Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: eon http://truthonthemarket.com/2006/05/09/poker-robots/#comment-5821 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:08:20 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2006/05/09/poker-robots/#comment-5821 nesmith ankeny wrote a book on poker bluffing that allowed me to program bluff into a program for playing pot-limit five-card draw.

]]> By: Matt http://truthonthemarket.com/2006/05/09/poker-robots/#comment-5820 Tue, 09 May 2006 19:50:00 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2006/05/09/poker-robots/#comment-5820 I remember when IBM’s Big Blue computer first beat Gary Kasparov in chess, when he described it as ‘like playing God’ and chess experts were amazed to see Big Blue could continue to make creative moves with very few pieces on the board, when chessmasters would universally say so few pieces left the game inherently unwinnable. But Big Blue could foresee so many more possible tactical moves than a human, that at that level, *tactics became strategy.* And hence Big Blue won.

To my view, poker is very different because it is strategy from the start. How do you teach a computer to bluff? How can a machine learn the difference between an apparently stupid move from a beginning player that actually *is* stupid, and apparently stupid move from an expert that actually is brilliant? So I’m inclined to agree, that computers playing poker as well as they play chess is a long, long way off.

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