Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Recently, there is a big discussion between the poker community people about online poker robots that could be able to play online by it selves. Technically a Poker bot is a robot, which was first developed by The University of Albertas Computer Poker Research Group. This robot could scan cards of its opponents by using screen scanning techniques and then respond in real time. Poker players are concerned about these robots as nobody is sure of how good the poker robot playing against them is! As always, there is a divided opinion abut the whole affair of poker robots. On the one hand, some people tent to wonder how a player can win against a robot, when and if it has been created to play poker perfectly, all the time. On the other hand, some people dont mind the robots, claiming that a robot can only be as perfect as his developer. Anyways poker is a complex game and programming a good, always victorious robot is a very hard and nearly impossible task. Read further...