[feral]

No - If the only thing computers couldn't beat humans at was reading tells, they'd win online poker.

But they don't yet do that: this paper is about beating humans at heads up, which is a much more limited domain than a full table.

If you want to learn about why to bluff I'd recommend reading about using game theory to solve Kuhn poker.

[philosopheer]

online poker has the tremendous flaw that collusion between players is the most optimum strategy, and there is just noooo way to stop it. Collaborating poker-bots who outsource their peppy poker chatter to Bangalore (your feedback is important to them!) will soon be running all the tables if they aren't already. No, they'll never be the champions, because that suboptimal strategy would lead to discovery, but as a giant grist milling farm grinding out profit, seems irresistable.

I did a quick google review of Kuhn poker and I don't see how any of that would not benefit from the understanding I was attempting to convey in my initial post.

[6nf]

Collusion is avoided entirely by playing heads up only.