Poker is a game of chance, calculating, a bit of luck, and some major big balls to call an all-in with a pair of deuces right before the flop.

If there’s a bot that can either do these things, and read “tells” at the same time (and yeah, even with online poker there are “tells”) you should work for microsoft, or make a living out of poker using automated bots.

If you have played online poker for any length of time, you have almost certainly played against a poker bot at one point or another. Poker bots are in such widespread use because some of the newer programs are virtually undetectable and this can quite a competitive edge in both normal play and tournaments. A poker bot will look at it’s hand, the cards on the river, and calculate what odds the other players have of holding a hand that is superior to yours. Such software will not win a game for someone every time, but it sure can get the owner a better than 50% win rate sometimes.

I would like to play vs a bot sometimes.