poker bot world championship

danteman · #1 08-10-2006, 12:08 PM

U Alberta won everything, beating CMU and three other programs.

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~games/poker/

The winner made almost 20 BB/100 on average.

The winning program is in Poker Academy.

FeNeF · #2 08-10-2006, 01:37 PM

This is cool in one sense, but worrying in another.

This was limit HU? Wouldn't mind seeing how they play.

vikefan24 · #3 08-10-2006, 02:25 PM

It is pretty interesting

bobbyi · #4 08-10-2006, 02:38 PM

Those Alberta people are good. Artificial intelligence was the main focus of my work for my master's degree and we read some of their papers in my computational game theory class. It is very interesting stuff.

danteman · #5 08-14-2006, 10:31 AM

> This was limit HU? Wouldn't mind seeing how they play.

Yes, limit HU. Apparently one of the bots they used is in Poker Academy (www.poker-academy.com). It's called "Sparbot". The software also has the best limit ring game bots, also from the U Alberta group.