Top 5 Trends in Poker of the Future
Have you ever wondered what the poker of the future will look like? What will be new in the game? What will remain the same? What will poker become in the next 5-10 years? We will try to answer all these questions in the following article.
*Artificial Intelligence Becomes the Poker Player’s “Helper”
AI is moving beyond poker coaches and will start to provide you with training and analysis tools. Players are now using AI-based solvers and analysis tools to refine their strategies and understand the concept of Game Theory Optimal (GTO). Artificial intelligence can analyze your playing style and provide you with real-time feedback. Programs like Libratus, powered by a supercomputer located at the Pittsburg Super Computing Center, are helping to create programs that use certain decision-making algorithms to train poker players.
Online poker operators will largely adopt AI for analysis and personalization to provide more advanced experiences to their player communities and will offer them for example: intelligent matchmaking – it will put you at tables appropriate to your playing level or it will help the platform detect cheaters and bots more easily. In this way, the game will become fairer.
**Poker Will Adopt Blockchain & Crypto
Poker will be more transparent and global. What does this mean? That transparent and decentralized payment methods based on blockchain technology will be adopted all over the world (it is estimated that 35-40% of platforms will install blockchain & crypto). It will also mean that banks will lose their power to restrict financial transactions, payments will be made instantly, through crypto.
The poker of the future will have more trust from participants, players will be less suspicious, each hand will be able to be verified. Provably Fair (PF) will be gradually introduced on platforms, this is a cryptographic technology that guarantees the fairness of the game for the user and the transparency of the gambling platform.
***It will be played more and more often on mobile
Why? Because the computing power of phones (through the microprocessors in it) will be increasingly greater. Because with the phone it is easier, more convenient and faster to enter the community. In addition, applications will be more optimized on the phone and obviously they will be faster, the latency level dropping to zero. The phone will make tournaments and cash games accessible at any time. Poker can become much more accessible to the masses on mobile.
****Virtual reality will offer immersive experiences
In the coming years, it is possible that poker will approach gaming and with the help of VR equipment will offer you a 3D experience, you can play through avatars, in a virtual reality, which will increase social interaction, only in a virtual environment. The transition from 2D interfaces to immersive 3D environments will allow players to physically interact with cards and chips in a virtual environment. This technology brings the social experience of live poker directly to the comfort of your own home. It will not be convenient, it will not be as fast as a mobile phone, but it will greatly increase the gaming experience. In addition, VR will also be able to offer a gamification of the game by increasing the level of play, creating missions, etc. This will make poker less of a strategy game, but more of an entertainment experience, which will be more enjoyable for those less initiated in this field and will greatly reduce their gaming anxiety. Recreational players will have a lot to gain.
*****Globalization of Poker
In the poker of the future, the boundaries between online and live will disappear. All the trends described above will transform the poker community into a global one where poker will be more accessible for beginners and which will instantly provide those interested in this type of entertainment with a global community and the opportunity to actively participate in international pools alongside their poker idols. Poker is likely to grow in popularity due to new technologies.
What will the organizers of this type of game go towards? Towards faster tournament formats, they will try to attract as many recreational players as possible, they will bring the social side through virtual reality, they will gamify the game, they will personalize the experience by using data analytics – for example, they will recommend games and challenges adapted to the skill level of each user, which will improve player retention and satisfaction. And last but not least, they will increase the security of the game, they will make it more transparent and fair.
The future of poker will be shaped by the integration of new technologies that transform the way we play, learn and interact at the table, but your skill in the game will still matter, but not to the extent that it has so far. Poker will become a spectacle.
