[brrrrrm]

> None of which are they currently capable

what makes you say this? modern LLMs (the top players in this leaderboard) are typically equipped with the ability to execute arbitrary Python and regularly do math + random generations.

I agree it's not an efficient mechanism by any means, but I think a fine-tuned LLM could play near GTO for almost all hands in a small ring setting

[eclark]

To play GTO currently you need to play hand ranges. (For example when looking at a hand I would think: I could have AKs-ATs, QQ-99, and she/he could have JT-98s, 99-44, so my next move will act like I have strength and they don't because the board doesn't contain any low cards). We have do this since you can't always bet 4x pot when you have aces, the opponents will always know your hand strength directly.

LLM's aren't capable of this deception. They can't be told that they have some thing, pretend like they have something else, and then revert to gound truth. Their egar nature with large context leads to them getting confused.

On top of that there's a lot of precise math. In no limit the bets are not capped, so you can bet 9.2 big blinds in a spot. That could be profitable because your opponents will call and lose (eg the players willing to pay that sometimes have hands that you can beat). However betting 9.8 big blinds might be enough to scare off the good hands. So there's a lot of probiblity math with multiplication.

Deep math with multiplication and accuracy are not the forte of llm's.

[JoeAltmaier]

Agreed. I tried it on a simple game of exchanging colored tokens from a small set of recipes. Challenged it to start with two red and end up with four white, for instance. I failed. It would make one or two correct moves, then either hallucinate a recipe, hallucinate the resulting set of tiles after a move, or just declare itself done!

[solotronics]

If you could, theoretically, make a LLM that could actually excel at poker would that mean that it is good at lying to people?