Talk:Computer poker players

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This page is redundant with the pokerbots page.--Toms2866 14:19, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Merged and redirected the orphan pokerbots page to this one which is referenced more, a bit broader in scope and older. 2005 20:42, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm 95% sure that the mention of 'Combinatorial Game Theory' is incorrect. Probably what was meant was standard game theory (ie Von Neumann's stuff). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.229.247.11 (talk) 14:34, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Is poker computationally intractable? If so, need a cite. Smyjpmu 00:27, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tells

A major part of the skill of live poker games, however, is guessing at the strength of a player's hand by identifying tells made by other players, while concealing one's own. As a computer would not make any physical tells, playing against a computer would necessitate reading tells only from the bets placed; equally, the computer cannot read human tells.

I removed this because it just isn't true. Computers are not at all incapable of identifying tells. In fact, computer systems are currently being developed to detect lying by identifying facial movements. As far as I know this has never been adapted to poker, but not because it'd be impossible.