*Once the game is reduced to calculating the odds at any given moment and bettin...

Once the game is reduced to calculating the odds at any given moment and betting when they're in your favor, even a simple machine should be able to beat a human as long as it makes reliable calculations.

You clearly don't have much of a grasp about what makes computer poker difficult. Read the U of A papers on poker AI:

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~games/poker/papers/AIJ02.html

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~games/poker/papers/ICML99.html

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~games/poker/papers/davidson.msc.h...