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i believe that a decade or so from now it is likely that online poker wont really even exist. this will be due to AI and computer advancements.
the games are 100% solvable, yet they're not solved now because of the colossal amount of effort it would take, but as computer power increases exponentially and very dramatically, what it takes to solve the games will become rather easy. an example of this is (i dont know the exact dates and im not gonna look it up, but im close) the human genome project of sequencing one human genome took like a decade in the 90s, but now scientists are embarking on a cancer/genetic project which is equivalent to approximately 14k human genome projects, and they estimate that could be achieved in five years. this is solely due to the exponential and rapid growth of computer power.
even if the game doesnt become solved within a few decades, a different thing that will likely happen is that the gap between the top and bottom end of players will increase almost exponentially due to 'intelligence' chips. probably a decade from now brain chips that improve just memory will be underground. thirty years from now brain chips in intellectual arenas will have more of an effect than steroids do in high impact sports.
you can be damn sure that if AI doesnt take over before the end of the century then humans will become biotech machines.
also, it's likely some of us will live to see a handful of centuries due to what are now becoming exponential advances in medicine due to human genome sequencing and computers' role in biology, but thats a different topic.
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