Article says: "So far, over the course of 500 hours, he says, he averages about $135 per hour in profits, playing at the $20- or $40-bet level."
Translation?: $135/hr at 20-40 limit (=$10 denomination machine, =6.75BB/hr)
Why?
The article tells you they had to dumb the bot down in order to get any interest. But maybe that's just an excuse, maybe their technique for making a bot is not so hot. Sure it bluffs and can fold at the river at a reasonable frequency now, but is that all there is to winning poker?
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, <vpfree@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Last paragraph of the article sums it up when writer is in Vegas and catches up with Chan:
"...I asked him if he thought anyone could win big over the long haul, beyond what Mike Reed has managed to grind out. "Nothing is impossible," Chan said. Then he added that some people see Texas Hold 'Em Heads Up Poker as a potential gold mine. "You probably have five groups out there right now, testing the machine, writing down all the results, getting every play blow by blow and figuring out what to do on every hand. One hundred percent, I'm sure there are teams working on it..."
HAL2000 is on the way.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, <vpfree@yahoogroups.com> wrote:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/magazine/poker-computer.html?_r=0New format of posting is extremely difficult. Did this using reply to another message.
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