Good morning, everyone. Well, I don’t believe that artificial intelligence is going to kill poker, or any other game like chess, for example. The major poker sites are extremely good at detecting fraud and figuring out if someone is using any kind of external assistance. Of course, every game that involves money will always have someone trying to cheat.
So, is there fraud in online poker? Yes, there is, and it’s proven. But what worries me more — as I mentioned in a previous reply — is collusion. Poker teams. There are many poker teams out there that save huge databases of players and then share them among their teammates. Some players have access to over 100,000 hands from a single opponent, even though they’ve never actually played that many hands against that person. I’ve been part of a poker team before, and I know they do this. I don’t agree with it. I asked to leave the team because of that. I know that if the sites detect this, they will ban the players involved. I don’t want to risk losing my account. So I already told the team that I’m not okay with participating in that, and I left.
That’s what worries me — not artificial intelligence. Look at chess: they have software that calculates every move. Did it kill chess? No. Because their anti-cheat systems are very strong. And poker’s security is even stronger than chess, because poker involves much larger amounts of money. The prizes are huge — $10 million, $20 million tournaments. Chess doesn’t pay that. Chess tournaments pay around $100k. Online poker pays millions. So the security systems are on another level.
In my opinion, the risk of AI killing online poker is zero.
