The Future Of Online Poker

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The games of Tic-Tac-Toe and Checkers are solved. This means, there is no way of beating an opponent who knows the solution. Not all games are solved. So far, Chess is not. However, the best human player can no longer beat the best computer player. This is also true for the game Jeopardy, which was proven when a computer, Watson, outscored Jeopardy's two best players Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Furthermore,computers will continue to play better and better as time goes on, while humanity may go a hundred years before seeing another player like Ken Jennings or Stu Ungar, a poker and bridge prodigy.

As for Poker, some day a computer will have an edge over every human player. This will happen. With its perfect memory, it will be able to remember every hand its opponent has played against it, and even every hand ever recorded on television or played on a poker website. Imagine playing against a poker player who knows exactly every move and mistake you have ever made! It will be able to calculate hand ranges and ev perfectly. No matter how many poker training videos you watch, strategy articles you read, or coaching ...
... sessions you get, you will never have more knowledge than it.

So will this be the end of poker? Of course not. Just like Chess has not died out, despite to beat the the best computer player. Simply consider all the computerized gambling machines at casinos, in which the house always has an edge. People still play them. A lot of people. It is still fun, and some people will profit over the short term. But, the poker world will change. Bots will continue to infiltrate the online poker world. In the event that poker sites are not vigilant in their watch, the bots will drive out profitability for human professionals, the ones who look for long term gains. The recreational player will still likely play, even if they know they are playing against a bot, just how people will play at a brick and mortar casino despite knowing the odds are stacked against them. This will still be profitable for the site and thus online poker will live on. For the sites that offer better bot protection, expect them to be infested with professional human players. Overall, the games will definitely get harder online, and will most likely get harder offline as well as the increase in the survival criterion online, which drives up competition and skill, will spill over. In the event that sites are unable to block the bots, it will spell doom for the professional poker player. Expect him to buy or program a bot himself, or to head down to the local brick and mortar casinos.

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