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Two professional card players are taking on the best poker-playing computer program in the world at the first man-machine challenge of its kind.
At the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver, the flamboyant Phil "The Unabomber" Laak and Ali Eslami will play 500 hands of Texas Hold 'em against Polaris, an artificial intelligence bot written by Jonathan Schaeffer's team at the University of Alberta. Here's a story I wrote about it this week.
The games started yesterday and continue today. The first day's action shows a draw in the first round and a win to Polaris in the second.
I'll add the full results here as soon as I have them later in the day.
