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Fortunately, there are around 22,000 possible flops
There are only 1755 strategically different flops.
I think it's 2-3 years tops till a program on a laptop is unbeatable by any human. Might take 4 on an iPhone.
What is fortunate though is that multiplayer games won't be solved anytime soon (if ever) and even if they are Nash equilibrium isn't that important there (because one player doing something silly ruins it for everybody else and you may end up playing something hugely -EV when following the equilibrium which is not the case in HU games).
From my perspective it's a good shot for WCG to be remembered as a guy who has beaten this huge supercomputer... won't be as glorious to be steamrolled by middle tier laptop in near future.
It happened in chess before: Kasparov beat Deep Blue in their first match just to lose in somewhat controversial circumstances in 2nd one. These days Deep Blue would lose vs top program on 2 years old smart phone. Poker is even worse for humans than chess it's just that poker programming is very undeveloped area compared to chess.
Last edited by punter11235; 04-23-2015 at 07:11 AM.