Man-machine poker championship: post game comments

On July 23rd and 24th, the first man-machine poker championship was held at AAAI 2007 in Vancouver, Canada. This match pitted poker professionals Phil Laak and Ali Eslami against Polaris -- a poker playing computer program designed by researchers at the University of Alberta.

The match's unique structure attempted to reduce luck by running duplicate matches. In this format, Ali and Phil formed a team against a team of two computer programs. Teammates played the same series of hands, but from opposite sides of the cards. In this way, both teams got to experience the "good side" and the "bad side" of the cards.

The match was extremely close, with the humans eking out a victory in the final of four 500 hand sessions. The humans finished with a 2-1-1 record, but they felt that Polaris gave them a huge challenge.

This video contains the comments that Phil and Ali had after learning about their victory. Both of them were really impressed with the program and had a lot of good things to say about it.

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Sports

Tags:

• aaai
• cprg
• university of alberta
• alberta
• Phil Laak
• Ali Eslami
• man-machine
• poker
• championship

[simoon222]

What the question in the beginning ?

[Heraldmk]

Ali is trying to guess how much Phil won by. He almost guesses it exactly.

[williedillssf]

So are we gonna finally get a good poker video game now?

[CoberreboC]

that was pretty obvious...