Comments on: Play BluffBot – Heads Up NL Poker Bot

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:55:47 +0000

Pretty tilting that my hand is folded when hitting enter… even if no bet has been made, it just open folds.

By: alex

alex — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:39:23 +0000

Actually making full ring bots is tougher. The best Bots in the world are heads up.

By: Gugel

Gugel — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:37:24 +0000

@Fairewin

Yup, I was pretty impressed the first time I played it. But within a few minutes, I found huge, massively exploitable holes. HU NL is also the most difficult for Hold’Em and I image it’d be like a million times easier to create a winning bot for a full ring limit.

By: Fairewin

Fairewin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:26:03 +0000

That is really cool. However, I played BluffBot and my conclusion is – I am really not worried about bots taking over online poker just yet BluffBot, while clever in a few situations, was easily exploitable by a human player who can recognize weaknesses and adjust very quickly.

Now, I am *not* a HUNL player (fr limit and 10-person NL sng mostly). I wonder if my style was so wrong that it confused BluffBot. Maybe I just got lucky.

@SuitedAces – why wouldn’t BluffBot adjust its game? Is that part of the rules, or just a matter a complexity that hasn’t been tackled yet?

By: SuitedAces

SuitedAces — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:54:38 +0000

Yes, you’re right of course. But what you need to remember about these things is that they are designed only as a solid equilibrium strategy. In other words they won’t employ SAGE and they can’t remember what happened in the last hand, so if you start pushing with any two it can’t remember and adjust accordingly. That also means that it didn’t adjust to your game, but just had enough randomness to give you the impression that it did.

The fact that it was able to make a game of it with an obviously decent human player such as yourself means it must be pretty good, and a good learning tool, but at the end of the day any decent human will eventually work out how to exploit its strategy.

I’m pretty sure you would find the Hyperborean bot to be tougher, due to the way it is made. Maybe you should try to contact UofA, you never know they might let you host a copy on your site as a learning tool – I wouldn’t hold my breath though!!!

By: Stef

Stef — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:42:28 +0000

True Gugel, i agree

By: Gugel

Gugel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:33:57 +0000

Actually, I played it a bit more, and it’s pretty nitty if you just start raising all-in with like 75% of your range. It’s not even using the unexploitable short-stack strategy when it’s less than 10 big blinds deep.