Author: Milos Horvath
Date: 00:58:34 07/25/05
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On July 25, 2005 at 03:40:15, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >By John Leyden (john.leyden at theregister.co.uk) >Published Friday 22nd July 2005 15:24 GMT >http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/22/pokerbot/print.html > >Supercomputers may be able to outdo grand masters in strategy games like chess >but when it comes to the low cunning and judgment required in games like poker >mankind still has the upper hand. Human Phil Laak this week beat PokerProbot, >the Hydra of Texas hold 'em, in a face-off at Binion's Gambling Hall, Las Vegas. Neural network technology or crafted AI? > >Laak, 33, also outsmarted three of the card-playing programs PokerProbot >defeated to win the World Poker Robot Championship, an earlier three-day >$100,000 competition to find the world's best poker-playing algorithm. Supported >by a cheering crowd, Laak bettered PokerProbot's pair of kings with a pair of >aces in a key hand and went on to defeat his silicon-powered opponent in the >last of 300 hands in a three-hour exhibition match, The Los Angeles Times >reports. >SPONSORED LINKS >Sony Vaio T series - Maximise your time - 6.5 hour battery life > >PokerProbot was developed by Hilton Givens, 39 - an Indiana car salesman, >programmer and sometime poker player - who lost a $100 side bet after Laak >outsmarted his algorithm. The end of the encounter left Laak, who also hosts a >poker show on cable TV and dates actress Jennifer Tilly, relieved rather than >elated. Other card players reckon its only a matter of time before computers >undo humans in games of trickery and deceit like poker. > >"In three to five years, they're going to win," said Kenneth "The Clone" Jones, >a professional poker player and occasional computer programmer. > >Casinos bar technological aids but Poker programs are widely suspected of being >surrupticiously used in online poker games, which are growing in popularity. > >"It [PokerProbot] would for sure make money online," Laak (who's known as "the >Unabomber" for his habit of hiding emotions behind sunglasses and a hooded >sweatshirt). In simpler versions of Texas hold 'em with set betting limits "bots >are better than the average person," Laak told the Los Angeles Times. He added >that anyone clever enough to program a poker program that can beat a human is >smart enough to create a pokerbot that would evade easy detection. ®
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