Tag archive: Poker

In an opinion dated in September but published just before the Christmas holiday (PDF), the U.S. Justice Department appears to be reversing almost half a century of policy on online and “wire” gambling, offering a new interpretation of law that may make it legal for states to authorize online gambling—and, if they do, the federal government would have to go along with it. The opinion, which ostensibly only applies to… Read More

The US Department of Justice has charged the owners of three of the largest Internet gambling sites for violating a cacophony of laws, including anti-gambling laws, money laundering and bank fraud, Reuters reports. The sites include Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker and PokerStars. New York prosecutors have issued restraining orders against 76 bank accounts in 14 countries that they say these companies used to launder billions of dollars in… Read More

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

Take-Two Interactive's 2K Sports label yesterday announced plans for a new poker video game for Sony's PSP based on the popular World Poker Tour television series. World Poker Tour for PSP will be available in the spring. World Poker Tour for PSP, according to Take Two, features real-life professional poker stars and venues featured in the popular World Poker Tour television series with enhanced A.I. players, customizable… 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