Unveiling ChatGPT’s Poker Insights: Our Personal Adventure

ChatGPT is all the rage… but can it succeed at poker? More importantly, can it do the impossible, and explain how to play Texas Hold ‘Em? Like, make the game so easy to understand even a human can do it? Let’s find out.

I decided to go in strong, and challenge the artificial intelligence machine to outline one of the trickiest concepts in poker: Position.

“Explain position in poker in very simple terms,” I told the program. Here’s what it had to say:

In poker, position refers to where a player is seated at the table in relation to the dealer. The player who is closest to the left of the dealer is considered to be in “early position,” and the player who is closest to the right of the dealer is considered to be in “late position.” The later a player’s position, the more information they have about the other players’ actions, which can give them an advantage in making decisions about whether to bet, call, or fold. This is because the players in later position get to act after the players in earlier positions, and can therefore see what decisions they make before they have to act themselves.

Even at first glance, that explainer seemed quite long… like a wall of text. Who wants to read all that? Already the answer was too dense for my taste.

So I tried again.

“Explain it more simply,” I commanded. It replied:

In poker, position refers to where you are sitting at the table. If you’re sitting to the left of the dealer, you’re in an “early” position. If you’re sitting to the right of the dealer, you’re in a “late” position. Being in a later position is generally better because you get to see what the other players do before you have to make your own decision. This can help you make better decisions about whether to bet, call, or fold.