Even the best poker face won’t work against a new superhuman cardsharp. For the first time, a computer algorithm has solved a game of poker, heads-up limit Texas Hold’em, making it unbeatable in the ...

To computers, there are basically two kinds of games in this world: games that we’ve figured out how to beat (perfect information games) and games we’re just beginning to solve (imperfect information ...

A team of researchers has created the perfect poker player, in the form of a computer algorithm. Scientist Michael Bowling, with his colleagues at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and ...

Kai-Fu Lee of Sinovation Ventures and Tuomas Sandholm of CMU at the poker tournament in southern China. The world’s most advanced poker bot just trounced all comers at a tournament last weekend in ...

The challenge is on. Computer scientists say they’ve created an algorithm that has essentially solved a version of Texas hold ’em, and it’s guaranteed to beat every single puny human competitor in the ...

An artificial-intelligence (AI) system has beaten professional poker players at a two-player version of the game called Texas hold'em that has no limits on betting. Poker is hard for machines to ...