I was involved in a fairly elaborate pokerbot effort. Believe me, the mechanics of playing the game are the easy part. The hard part is writing the poker logic. Check this out if you want an intro to the "basic" concepts:
The bot described in that paper lost about 8c a hand at the $1 tables. After extensive modifications, we got it to the point where it was losing about 2c a hand. This when Bush made poker illegal in the US, and we killed the project.
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I was involved in a fairly elaborate pokerbot effort. Believe me, the mechanics of playing the game are the easy part. The hard part is writing the poker logic. Check this out if you want an intro to the "basic" concepts:
Lokibot: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~jonathan/Grad/papp/thesis.html
The bot described in that paper lost about 8c a hand at the $1 tables. After extensive modifications, we got it to the point where it was losing about 2c a hand. This when Bush made poker illegal in the US, and we killed the project.