I don’t know if Libratus will win in the end (if I had to place my money, it would be the robot) – but it goes to show the leaps we are seeing in AI these days. And guess what, when I write these words half way on January 22th, the Robot hold $686k, with all the humans down! From January 11th and the following 20 days, four of the world’s best poker players are playing the “Bot” Libratus for $1000k at Rivers Casino in Pennsylvania. But poker is different from chess for the above mentioned reasons, it is a case of, and a game of, imperfect information and hence decisions are not all straight forward, logical deductions.Īmazing things are going down this very weekend. When computers many years back first beat the world’s greatest chess players (1997 against Kasparov), I used the analogy that it was no more impressing than if an excavator won the weightlifting championship. It is about being able to read your opponent, understand the mood of the other players, and it is about luck (a word I would claim we often use to describe decisions and actions based on information, we find too complex to describe). So why did I lose? Because winning in poker, is about much more than right-side brain logical skills.
The guy who beat me, does not match me neither in the ability to count cards or calculate the odds, rather the opposite (his own words, which is why I dare to write this). I lost though I had the better hand, if you count the value of the cards (although I am embarrassed to admit this).
Less than a week ago, I lost in the final hands in a game of Texas Hold'em.
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