Pro Beats Robot in Limit Holdem Challenge
It wasn't just the WSOP main event that was a success, as organizers for the first ever World Series of Poker Robots said their tournament, which pitted the best computer programmers--via their poker "robots"--against each other, was a smashing success.
Longtime I-gaming executive Steve Latham helped promote the event, which invited programmers from India, Canada, Hong Kong and the United States to pit their poker bots against each other in a tournament. The winner, Hilton Gibbons, got $100,000 for his efforts and was invited to a heads-up game against poker pro Phil Lakke (a.k.a. the "Unibomber"), who proceeded to topple Gibbons' bot.
For the moment, human's prevail in poker, but University of Alberta professor Jonathan Schaeffer, who was involved in the event, said it may just be a matter of time before the tables are turned.
"I don't think that there's a program today that would be a strong favorite versus a human," Schaeffer said, but he added that one-on-one limit Hold'Em glitches can be solved, thereby enabling a computer to play perfectly.
It took more than 300 hands for Laak to put away "PokerProbot," and after the action, Laak acknowledged that most average players would have a tough time against it.
"It would for sure make money online," Laak said. "At least in the simpler versions of Texas hold 'em with betting limits, bots are better than the average person."
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Longtime I-gaming executive Steve Latham helped promote the event, which invited programmers from India, Canada, Hong Kong and the United States to pit their poker bots against each other in a tournament. The winner, Hilton Gibbons, got $100,000 for his efforts and was invited to a heads-up game against poker pro Phil Lakke (a.k.a. the "Unibomber"), who proceeded to topple Gibbons' bot.
For the moment, human's prevail in poker, but University of Alberta professor Jonathan Schaeffer, who was involved in the event, said it may just be a matter of time before the tables are turned.
"I don't think that there's a program today that would be a strong favorite versus a human," Schaeffer said, but he added that one-on-one limit Hold'Em glitches can be solved, thereby enabling a computer to play perfectly.
It took more than 300 hands for Laak to put away "PokerProbot," and after the action, Laak acknowledged that most average players would have a tough time against it.
"It would for sure make money online," Laak said. "At least in the simpler versions of Texas hold 'em with betting limits, bots are better than the average person."
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