The poker forums and sites are buzzing with the news that Full Tilt Poker has suspended at least two accounts and refunded a good size group of players who played against those accounts. Their reason for doing so was that they identified the accounts as being ‘Bots’.
The forums have identified two accounts that were supposedly seized and then refunded to the players who entered heads up matches with them. They are supposed to be Japinthesack and Beatme1. These were evidently identified in emails from Full Tilt that announced refunds to a large number of players for a variety of amounts.
Science Fiction loves the artificial intelligence aspect with computers. Often this involved try to take over the world ala Pinky and the Brain — the two enhanced lab mice at Acme Labs. Other times it creates the superior being that becomes the savior of the race. In the poker scene though, it isn’t ever the latter.
Pinky: “Gee Brain, what do you want to do tonight?”
The Brain: “The same thing we do every night, Pinky – Try to take over the world!”
Vex Bot is the computer program of the University of Alberta’s computer science lab. It recently played two pros to a basic tie. It should be the cutting edge product out there and the authors acknowledge it is only a master player in heads up play.
The only sure bet here is that