[ishaanc90]

I have done HFT, played heads up semi professionally, and for my bachelors thesis wrote a paper on a PLO playing bot. I studied Alberta's research and it is phenomenal. The parallels that emerge between HFT and a pokerbot is essentially that the architectures of both systems are kind of same and the details are kind of orthogonal. The edge in Hold'em is kind of gone. The 1/2 games right now are as tough as the 25/50 games 5 years ago. PLO is still pretty exploitable though. The same is true with HFT. Most strategies in HFT no longer work but there are definitely ones that still give you a lot of edge-you just have to think harder : )(just like three betting preflop and cbetting the flop doesnt work anymroe).

[wallawe]

> just like three betting preflop and cbetting the flop doesnt work anymore.

So true, and frustrating. But, the legalization of online play could bring back another boom at least for a couple of years.