http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/ Engadget Comments for Texas Hold 'em champs face off with pokerfaced computer http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/Jul 23rd 2007 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/Jul 23rd 2007 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/
chris ferguson will just turn it into a cup of G&T with just a wink.]]>Jul 23rd 2007 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/
The computer's strength here is that it can calculate the odds virtually instantly.
Much like how Deep Blue's team beat Kasparov, the only way the computer will have a chance is if the team religiously analyzes the human player's playing style (they bluff when they have hand x, don't when they have hand y, they play fast and loose when they have the short stack, etc.) and programs that into the computer.

And much to Kasparov's chagrin, he was not allowed to study the programming of Deep Blue. You think UofA will allow these guys to study the computer to the degree that they'll study them? Unlikely.

These types of matches are really just bunk, and stacked in the favor of the programmers.

Of course, most of the time, the human wins (and I expect the computer to lose here, too) and it just gives the programming team more ammunition in which to try again later.]]>Jul 24th 2007 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/
I love it when I sit at the table with morons and they quote statistics, "oh, he only had a 8.3842% chance of hitting that" when knowing the level of detail is just, well, unnecessary. Approximations are key.

If they have a database of Phil Laak hands on which the computer can refernce vs. starting to model him at the beginning of the game, THAT would certainly be unfair.]]>Jul 24th 2007 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/
pick a card...any card...BOIIIING!]]>Jul 23rd 2007 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/
Good stuff. Too bad your double posted, as I often do.

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pick a card...any card...BOIIIING!]]>Jul 23rd 2007 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/Jul 23rd 2007 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/
What would a computer do with the $50,000 prize?]]>Jul 23rd 2007 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/Jul 23rd 2007 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/Jul 23rd 2007 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/Jul 23rd 2007 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/~G]]>Jul 23rd 2007 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/Jul 23rd 2007 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/Jul 23rd 2007 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/
Or Data with the geniuses playing cards would have been a good one as well.]]>Jul 23rd 2007 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/Jul 24th 2007 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/Jul 24th 2007 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/Jul 24th 2007 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/texas-hold-em-champs-face-off-with-pokerfaced-computer/
Five WSOP bracelets doesn't count as good in your book?]]>Jul 24th 2007 9:38PM