ChatGPT and Poker AI: Merging Two Digital Titans

Artificial Intelligence has been impacting the world of online poker for several years now. In 2017 it transformed the idea of poker bots, which before were relatively unsophisticated and poor players. But add AI to the mix and we had a poker bot that could regularly beat human players. Two years later a software-based AI algorithm allowed a poker bot to beat an entire table of professional poker players.

Now as AI is making in-roads in almost every industry and activity, most notably through ChatGPT, the best-known AI tool around, can the two be combined to create a super-player who cannot be beat?

Can I Use ChatGPT for My Poker Game?

Yes, you can! In fact, there are a number of ways that ChatGPT can be used in poker. With ChatGPT 4 especially, it has become a tool that can help in game, but also offer other support too. By explaining a game scenario and asking for the best strategy, ChatGPT can suggest options for your next turn to help you find the most successful outcomes.

However, that is not all. By using prompts to ask ChatGPT about the rules of the game and how to learn it, ChatGPT can be a surprisingly effective poker tutor that can help you grasp the basic concepts as well as some of the more advanced strategic approaches to the game, quickly and easily.

But it can help you learn in another way too. After a game, you can input the details of hands played and it can offer insight into where you could improve or decisions that could be changed to help you achieve better results.

In fact, the use of ChatGPT for training is probably the most practical option, as using it for in game advice is a little impractical. Also remember, ChatGPT is primarily a language model, and while it has learned the rules and strategies from poker books, and is familiar with the concepts, it is not the same as a dedicated AI poker bot in terms of strategy development and fast, real-time analysis.

The Role of AI in Poker

Until recently, AI in poker was used almost exclusively by poker bots, which have become extremely sophisticated.

Not only can they adapt to opponent’s strategies and use almost perfect game optimal theory to avoid losses, but the latest AI poker bots actually learn poker themselves, rather than being programmed. The more they play the better they become.

AI has become so good at real time analysis, that AI technology has found its way into new tools. AI assistants offer on screen guidance, rather than a bot that plays the game itself, providing insight into each player’s next move, statistical outcomes of various strategy choices and so on.

Poker professionals have started using AI powered tools for practice and training too. These solutions allow a professional to analyze game performance and focus their practice on any areas of weakness they find.

The Role of ChatGPT in Poker

ChatGPT is best deployed as an analysis tool, helping you work through each hand after the game, showing you where different strategies could be deployed to improve results. This can be a really helpful exercise and speed up player progression significantly.

It can also be used as a tutorial, providing guidance for learning the basic rules as a new player, as well as homing in on specific advanced concepts as players progress in their poker journeys. Here, not only are explanations provided, but also in game examples shown to help players better understand even complex concepts.

Finally, it is possible to ask ChatGPT for strategic suggestions during a hand of poker, however neither the ChatGPT interface, nor its understanding of poker, make this a very practical option.

Can ChatGPT Play Online Poker?

Not in the same way a dedicated AI poker bot can. ChatGPT, even in its latest version, is a language modeler, so is not designed to play poker. However, it does understand poker, and with clever developers, it is theoretically possible to create a system where ChatGPT could take data straight from the poker platform you use and provide guidance as to what to do at each turn.

Like poker bots though, this is very likely against the terms of service and could put your poker account at risk.

Is ChatGPT Suited for Poker? Does It Know How to Play?

ChatGPT has hade millions of articles, books and other datasets incorporated into its database as it learns language, including poker rules, strategy guides and so on. In that sense, it knows and understands the rules of poker, and given a poker scenario, can use that information to develop the most likely strategy to win. However, it is always drawing on that database of information, rather than a dedicated poker bot that adapts as it goes.

It is worth noting that, as already mentioned, chat is just a language model that received information from the Internet and poker books. It does not have a large database of hands and millions of practical variations of outcomes during a real game of online poker. Therefore, the best way to view ChatGPT is as a quick-access book on poker strategies, rather than as a poker expert who can play for you.

Which Poker Variants Does ChatGPT Support?

ChatGPT has been trained with information on most types of poker that are commonly played today. This includes:

• Texas Hold’em
• Omaha
• Seven Card Stud
• Razz

How to use ChatGPT API for Online Poker

The ChatGPT API is very flexible, and it could be adapted for use in poker in a number of ways.

By allowing a connection between the poker platform, or a poker assistant, and ChatGPT that feeds real time data about each hand to it, ChatGPT could offer some real time strategic analysis and suggestions as to the best approach for each turn of the game.

We have previously mentioned its use as a training tool, and using the API to connect a poker game simulator to ChatGPT could allow the software to provide critique of player moves as they practice. Instant feedback and guidance in a controlled environment.

Finally, the API could be used to connect ChatGPT with a poker bot, sharing data about the hand as it is played, with ChatGPT offering suggestions for strategy. Here the poker bot could theoretically play the game unsupervised using ChatGPT as its AI engine.

Benefits of merging two technologies

The clear benefit for poker bot developers would be that ChatGPT has already trained on all aspects of poker. It knows the rules and strategies, so if adopting the ChatGPT AI as its analytical tool, it saves the need to develop new algorithms and train them.

FAQ

How can ChatGPT be used in poker?

ChatGPT can be used as a poker assistant, offering advice in real time during games, as a training tool to help players improve, or as a teaching tool that helps players learn rules or specific strategic concepts.

What AI technologies are used in the development of poker bots?

AI algorithms provide the analysis and decision-making engine for poker bots, while the machine learning capabilities and database building are used to learn the game rules and strategic options by playing the game against itself for millions of hands.

How can merging ChatGPT and poker AI improve the gaming experience?

Providing a more compelling learning and analysis experience helps players both get started and gain an understanding of strategic concepts more quickly. Players can become better, faster.