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0 pointsraincole5mo ago0 comments

Sites have very a strong incentive to make you believe this. Otherwise no human would join anymore.

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I'm beating online poker. The difficulty of beating online poker is very much dependent on the site and the rake.

Doesn't mean bots aren't widespread. It just means you're better than the breakeven player.

I'm a software engineer with 10+ years of experience. I'm also a poker player that has a very deep understanding of the game. Writing a poker bot that can beat the game is absolutely not trivial. There are "solvers" that use counterfactual regret minimization to solve a constrained version of the game for specific scenarios. These are useful for understanding the principles of the game but they are not the cheat sheet people think they are.

I think people fundamentally don't get that poker is not like chess. The vast majority of money I win is from identifying when players are too attached to their hand and never folding or when they just give up on their hand and fold to any bet.

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jliptzin5mo ago

That’s not true, people willingly put money into games that they know are heavily slanted against them all the time.

Even some people who are victims of scams admit that at the time they sent some/all of money they knew it was a scam but did it anyway.

noitpmeder5mo ago

Sure but you shouldn't then trust their decision asking ability

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