Men to take on machine at WSOP demonstration
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Two online pros will attempt to beat a poker-playing computer program developed by University of Alberta researchers at the World Series of Poker on July 4-6, during the Gaming Life Expo at the Rio in Las Vegas.
One of the two players taking on the program will be Nick “stoxtrader” Grudzien, co-founder of the online poker training site Stoxpoker. The other player is yet to be determined but will also be from Stoxpoker.
According to pokernews.com:
The match represents a chance for Polaris — and its creators, the University of Alberta’s Computer Poker Research Group (CPRG) — to avenge its narrow loss last July to Phil Laak and Ali Eslami.
The competition will follow a similar format to that used for last year’s event which took place in Vancouver at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. There will be a series of 500-hand “duplicate” matches of fixed-limit hold’em, meaning in each match the two human competitors will simultaneously play 500 hands of LHE against Polaris, with the same series of cards being dealt in both contests; only the hole cards will be reversed.
The Alberta researchers claim the program has a measure of artificial intelligence and is capable of adapting to the player it is facing and exp his or her weakenesses.
