Card sharks to battle computer at poker - Yahoo! News

But it’s only a matter of time before the machines take a commanding lead in the war for poker supremacy. Just as they already have in backgammon, checkers and chess, computers are expected to surpass even the best human poker players within a decade. They can already beat virtually any amateur player.

Here’s where this computer poker stuff breaks down…there is no endgame in poker.

Let me re-phrase that — outside of tournaments, which I will predict right here and now that no computer will ever win — poker don’t stop.  Sessions may end, you might run out of buy-ins, I might get sleepy or hungry, or bored with the stakes, or even the game being dealt itself.  That doesn’t mean that there’s a winner.

Having said that, I think it’s entirely possible that a computer program could accumulate the most chips over a fixed period of hands or time.  That’s poker.   Can Deep Dolly hold on to those chips over the lifespan of the average serious player?  Nah, not likely.

Here’s the way to do this…set that program up to take on all comers at any time at any stakes.  It doesn’t need food or sleep.  Give it an endless bankroll, even.  I just want to see where it is after a year of playing.  Then five years.