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Experts in the computer programming world are the first to admit that developing a computer program that plays poker like a person is still a long ways off. In the meantime Thomas Sandholm, the director of Carnegie Mellon's Electronic Marketplaces is excited about their GS2 poker robot. When compared to the other poker bots out there, GS2 is one of the more realistic at copying the way a real-life poker player would play the game.
Thomas Sandholm explains that the logic behind creating a computer program that simulates something like poker is a flawed process. Poker players decide how to play their hands based on partial information, there are too many unknowns to create a program that duplicates what a real person would do at the table. When you add the various combinations of cards on the table and betting logic it makes a computer program hard to develop due to the high amount of unknowns.
The program will be tested some more at Carnegie Mellon labs throughout the remainder of the year.
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