“If you think reading the poker faces of your buddies on Texas Hold’em night is tough, try calling the bluff of an opponent with no face at all.
A $50,000 showdown between a poker-playing computer and two of the world’s sharpest poker players will take place on Monday in Vancouver, and it’s anybody’s guess who will take the pot.
The machine, dubbed “Polaris” by its University of Alberta creators, is designed to play to its opponents’ weaknesses, seamlessly switching gears from cautious under-betting to aggressive bluffing.
“With poker, the key thing is unpredictability,” said Jonathan Schaeffer, one of the lead artificial intelligence researchers on the Polaris project. “A computer is very good at predicting odds . . . it can do that very quickly.”
The Province (07/20/07)
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DamnedPoker // July 22, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Phil Laak plays vs. computer
World Poker Tour 2004 winner Phil Laak will try to beat computer by playing 2,000 hands. Computers are getting better and better and they are already beating amateur players on the Internet. Considered to be one of the best games research group Canadia…