Humans Dominating Poker Super Computer

New submitter IoTdude writes: The Claudico super computer uses an algorithm to account for gargantuan amounts of complexity by representing the number of possible Heads-Up No-limit Texas Hold'em decisions. Claudico also updates its strategy as it goes along, but its basic approach to the game involves getting into every hand by calling bets. And it's not working out so far. Halfway through the competition, the four human pros had a cumulative lead of 626,892 chips. Though much could change in the week remaining, a lead of around 600,000 chips is considered statistically significant.

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Re:Is it too hard to list chip counts?

[Anonymous Coward]

80000 hands * 20000 stack each hand = 1600000000 chips if humans win all hands.

Re:Yeeee ha!

[mc6809e]

And the computer here is a patsy called a calling station.

From the article: "but its basic approach to the game involves getting into every hand by calling bets".

Re:Poker is a lot more complex...

[AuMatar]

There's no card counting in Texas Holdem. The deck is reshuffled after each hand dealt. Only 7 cards are shown to a given player, and all of them can be read at any time. There's no advantage to card counting, because you don't need to count. They may have some other card game they beat, but it isn't holdem.