Landmark AI system beats poker pros in multi-player Texas hold 'em

An example hand from the game showing the AI system (Pluribus) bluffing five professional players

A team of computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University and the Facebook AI Research lab has created an AI system that, for the first time, has defeated several poker professionals in six-player Texas hold-em. Unlike earlier iterations of the system, the researchers will not publicly release this algorithm’s code, for fear it could decimate the online poker world.

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PokerBot Uses FPGA For Card Calculating Horsepower

Played against humans, Poker is a game as much about reading your opponent as it is about the cards you’re dealt. That doesn’t mean there aren’t certain mathematical ways to aid your decision making based on probabilities. In this vein, a group of students from Cornell’s ECE 5760 class built …read more

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Poker tournaments disrupted after DDoS attacks on Americas Cardroom

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Last year in September, Americas Cardroom (ACR), a popular online poker
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Online poker site bombarded by DDoS attacks, pauses tournaments

Bad news if you’re crazy about playing online poker – one of the world’s oldest online poker websites has been forced to pause its online tournaments after suffering a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks. Americas Cardroom… Continue reading Online poker site bombarded by DDoS attacks, pauses tournaments

News in brief: Macron vows encryption crackdown; mobile calls on planes ruled out; AI wins at poker

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AI Beats Poker Pros: Skynet Looms

There have been a few “firsts” in AI-versus-human gaming lately, and the computers are now beating us at trivia, chess and Go. But in some sense, none of these are really interesting; they’re all games of fact. Poker is different. Aside from computing the odds of holding the winning hand, where a computer would obviously have an advantage, the key to winning in poker is bluffing, and figuring out when your opponent is bluffing. Until recently, this has helped man beat the machine. Those days are over.

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