Laak v Computer

hotspur

Phil Laak and Ali Eslami (never heard of him) start their match against the University of Alberta's Polaris limit hold em poker software programme today. It should be interesting. Though having said that forget about Phil Laak playing a supercomputer at limit, I wanna see Jennifer Tilly playing a toaster at no limit!

opr

Kinda related i seen that last week checkers became a solved game.

Only took the computer 18 years of non stop playing !!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19839044/

Edit : Just noticed its the same team that built the checkers computer that are challenging Laak and Ali Eslami

Opr

NeoSlicerZ

I'd be more worried about the evolving card playing AI that got made... kinda cool, they set multiple incarnations of the software playing itself, some became rocks, some became really aggressive and the funniest thing of all, at the start the ai played one hand in the first 40, lost, and promptly never played again untill forced.

Rb

Link to live updates I found on 2+2

hotspur

I know of a Nottingham Uni based AI guy who is into that, here's a paper of his on it:
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gxk/papers/ai01poker.pdf

aidanf

This is the University of Alberta poker research group. They built poker academy and won best paper at the main worldwide AI conference a couple of times for their poker research. You can read the publications describing their research at their website:

http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/

Check out the publications section at the bottom. Some very interestesting stuff there.

bohsman

NeoSlicerZ wrote:

I'd be more worried about the evolving card playing AI that got made... kinda cool, they set multiple incarnations of the software playing itself, some became rocks, some became really aggressive and the funniest thing of all, at the start the ai played one hand in the first 40, lost, and promptly never played again untill forced.

I read about a 7stud one that went nuts and auto raised everything till it went broke.

ocallagh

bohsman wrote:

I read about a 7stud one that went nuts and auto raised everything till it went broke.

it obviously has the same defect you have in LHE!

mrflash

seen that alright, i dont think a computer could win against a good poker player. it cannot think for itself, so its just a process of figuring out the weakness.

phantom_lord

whatever happened with those bots that were on full tilt?

mrflash

didnt hear about that one, whats the story there.
just checking the results and laak is hammering polaris, its the gamer who is losing.

Inquitus

OK so the Poker Pro's beat the computer 2-1.

What is the rules regarding computer's and online play?

A good spec home PC at chess can beat all but the best human players, so I am assuming that a decent poker program running on one could turn a decent profit.

Does any of this go on?

Inqui

Tar.Aldarion

Bots.
With computers continually improving, and being able to take stats into account better than a human, soon it will be in the computers favour,

ocallagh

Inquitus wrote:

OK so the Poker Pro's beat the computer 2-1.

What is the rules regarding computer's and online play?

A good spec home PC at chess can beat all but the best human players, so I am assuming that a decent poker program running on one could turn a decent profit.

Does any of this go on?

Inqui

poker is different to chess. actions and reactions cannot be predicted so easily.... but it sounds like your computer would give it a good go!

aidanf

Inquitus wrote:

What is the rules regarding computer's and online play?

Using a bot is against the TOS of all the major online poker rooms. If they detect a bot they will freeze the account and seize the funds in that account.