Friday, October 10, 2008

How to setup a winning poker bot in one weekend

Open Hold'em is a great open source framework for poker bot. Here are the steps to setup a winning poker bot in one weekend:

1. Download OH:
http://code.google.com/p/openholdembot/downloads/list
(If you find compatibility issue with Winngy bot, you can go back to 1.7.0 version)

2. Download pokerstars table maps and follow the instruction to setup poker stars environment:
http://www.maxinmontreal.com/wiki/index.php5?title=Poker_Stars

3. Launch OH. Load Table Map from step 2. Connect to PokerStars and start AutoPlay.

4. Winngy Bot:
Once you are able to connect to the table an autoplay via OH. You can download the Winngy bot. Then you can read the code there. You can find the symbols and formulas on OH wiki:
http://www.maxinmontreal.com/forums/download/file.php?id=1609
http://www.maxinmontreal.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=5893

5. Setup PokerTracker

6. Setup VMWare to run bot in stealth mode.

Reference:
OH Wiki:
http://www.maxinmontreal.com/wiki/index.php5?title=OpenHoldem:EndUserDocumentation
http://pokerai.org/wiki/index.php/OpenHoldem

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