Tag archive: Phil Laak

While programmers have recently mastered the game of checkers by creating a program that can win at every game, the much more complex game of poker is just starting to be unraveled by artificial intelligence. A team of researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada have developed a poker-playing program known as Polaris, which is set to square off with two human opponents on Monday. Phil Laak and Ali Eslami are both… Read More

The World Poker Robot Championship brought together six programmers with the challenge to create a poker bot capable of beating the worlds best poker players.  At stake was $100,000.  The robots faced off against each other, and the winner, nicknamed Poker Probot and designed by Hilton Givens, was given a chance to take on poker champion Phil Laak. Phil Laak, nicknamed "The Unibomber", has a World Poker Tour First Place win to… Read More