somewhat off the topic: are there any legal issues with running a bot at online poker sites??? just curious?
My apologies if already posted, saw this over the weekend http://www.informationweek.com/show...35SOBQQSNDBCSKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=165701734 Poker-Playing Robots Battle For $100,000 Pot July 12, 2005 It's not just fun and games and cash. The winner of the World Poker Robot Championship will help artificial intelligence meet a tough challenge: solving problems in the face of incomplete and inaccurate information. By Larry Greenemeier
That is commonly referred to as collusion, and is probably the thing good online poker players fear most from bots. It is a form of cheating. Online sites can and do shut down players who play together too often - it's pretty easy for the sites to detect if you do it often or if you're using the same IP #s.
Online sites can and have frozen player accounts who they suspect are running bots. That was one of the reasons I decided to call it quits. It also was not as profitable as I had hoped. Because my bot didn't read other players' actions it was at a disadvantage. I started "helping" it out when it was making clearly foolish plays against certain players (overbetting, folding too easily, not folding quick enough). In the end I was helping my bot to such an extent that it was as if I were just there multitabling by myself. Besides the whole point of this exercise was to observe the bots and learn from them rather than me playing. I got tired of the late nights and all the rest and decided to end the experiment while I was ahead.