[Update: two of the original authors of this post have moved on to greener pastures, and have asked us to mothball this content in preparation for an upcoming book. Thanks for all the feedback and stay tuned for more technical poker content in the future.]
Introduction
Several years ago, a client asked us to come up with a prototype for an online poker bot. That’s right: a piece of software you park on your computer while it goes out to an online poker site and plays no-limit Holdem for you, at 4 or 14 different tables…