Poker machines

July 23, 2008 8:51 am

I’m late to the party, but a pokerbot beat some decent human players earlier this month. This is not a huge surprise: when I visited the artificial-intelligence version of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas in 2005, it seemed likely that this was coming. It will take a little more time to be sure, though: there is a great deal of variance in poker. (Steve Levitt has more on that point – always interesting.)

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