AI in Poker: A Helper or a Threat to Players in 2025
Poker and Artificial Intelligence: Who are You Playing Against in 2025?
AI technology is everywhere now, including poker rooms and online casinos. In completely randomised games like Aviator Game, there's no way they can predict the outcome. But in poker, AIs have evolved from auxiliary simulators to a factor that levels the playing field between pros and beginners. AI models don't just tell you what to do anymore - they play instead of humans. Here's a look at who you really have to compete with at the poker table in 2025.
When Artificial Intelligence is Your Coach, Not Your Opponent
Until recently, analysing hands after a session was like trying to figure out what went wrong - manually, with intuition and forum parsing. Things are different now.
Solutions like GTO Wizard, PioSOLVER or PokerSnowie teach players to be strategic by simulating thousands of game situations and showing how the ‘ideal player’ would act. They are already being used by professional players and ambitious amateurs alike. They are not just calculators, but real helpers - in learning, planning strategy, analysing your own and others' mistakes.
Many have already built such tools into their routine. Some run key hands the day after a game, others run them immediately after a session. The game becomes less like guessing and more like a chess game with access to rehearsal.
When Artificial Intelligence is a Direct Threat
But there is a second side to this coin. The more capabilities AI has, the more tempting it is to use it not in training, but during the game itself. Real-time assistance (RTA) programmes and poker bots don't just exist - they're evolving. This is not a fantasy, but a reality faced by major rooms such as PokerStars, GGPoker and partypoker.
Some AI systems are able to suggest flop and turn decisions right in the middle of a hand. And if this happens in real time, it's an offence. It gives an unfair advantage and destroys the very principle of poker: to make decisions independently, based on experience and analysis.
Poker rooms are reacting by introducing behavioural analytics, tracking patterns, and using their own algorithms to detect foul play. Between 2023 and 2024, GGPoker, for example, blocked tens of thousands of accounts and confiscated millions of dollars in suspected players' accounts. It's a war that goes on in the background of every session you play.
How to Adapt and Not Fall Out of the Game
Amidst these changes, players are left with two options: abandon the game or rethink how to approach it. Giving up is the easiest option, but not the most interesting. Adapting, on the other hand, requires effort but gives you a chance to stay in the pool.
Which is something to consider right now:
- Use AI solutions legally - for learning, analysing and building strategies, but not during the game;
- Constantly monitor which tools are allowed on your chosen platform;
- Develop your field-reading, off-topic, and exploit skills - something AI still does worse than humans for nowr.
Conclusion
AI is already reshaping poker - not in theory, but in practice. It helps you grow if you use it as a coach. And it becomes dangerous when it turns into a dishonest partner at the table. Players who are willing to retrain, adopt new approaches, and understand where learning ends and cheating begins will stay in the game. The rest will either have to change their discipline or watch the game from the sidelines. The stakes are rising - and not just at the tables.