There will be a day, sooner than later, where bots will play poker better than almost any human. Not only that, but the software will run on small platforms. This is an existential threat to on-line poker. If they can't assure the public that the games are fair AND also really keep the bot users off their sites, the games will wither and die.
This is also a quite interesting field of study. The implications of perfecting AI capable of handling the imperfect information of poker extend far beyond the card table.
The rise of the robots is coming! Are you ready? -=- DrStrange