At the table you should know that robots do not affect your game in any other way than a good player at the table would have. It can't affect the outcome of the cards or play in a manner that makes you win or lose more than you should have had the robot been a real and good player.
Robots are probably the single largest threat to online poker's growing success. In fixed limit games, the best robots can consistently beat mediocre opposition. At the higher limits they still have a hard time. However, in heads-up poker the best robots are often extremely strong, only loosing to great physical players. Robot play has had a tremendous negative affect on real money online games in backgammon and chess, where the robots are literally unbeatable.
You might get a bit scared by hearing this. Thankfully, there are still very few robots actually playing in real money games and most of the leading poker rooms are investing huge resources in both automated and manual counter measures to track robot play as well as any other form of cheating. Fortunately writing a poker robot program that can beat a table of experienced players is a very difficult undertaking as the game does not lean itself well for standard game programming as there is so much hidden information and " contextual game theory" where a player must try to make his opponents make mistakes. So any program would have to " think" and know how to bluff and lay traps.
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