New York Times Discusses Online Poker Bots
It’s not every day that poker garners the attention of the mainstream media. On Monday, the New York Times published a rare online poker article focusing on the proliferation of bots.
For those of you new to the game, “bots,” short for “robots,” are computer programs designed to play poker automatically at the virtual tables. All of the actions that a bot takes – bet, raise, call, fold, etc. – are pre-determined based on the play that has already occurred during a hand. Whatever the programmer has coded into the bot is what it will do. Gabriel Dance, the article’s author, explains this early on in the piece.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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