Poker Bot Beats Chinese Players In Heads-Up MatchLatest Version Of Carnegie Mellon's Libratus Wins |
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The updated Carnegie Mellon University heads-up no-limit hold’em poker machine easily defeated a team of six Chinese players over the weekend.
The five-day match ended Monday, but the official tally isn’t out yet, according to a report from Bloomberg. The report stated that the contest was a “landslide” for the bot.
The machine, dubbed Lengpudashi, won the $290,000 winner-take-all prize. Its predecessor, Libratus, won 1.7 million play chips against four top poker pros in January.
The match in Pittsburgh was 120,000 hands, while the game in the Chinese province Hainan was just 36,000 hands. The smaller sample size meant that the contest wasn’t a “scientific experiment” like the battle earlier this year, according to CMU.
“This is an exhibition, not a match, challenge or competition,” computer scientist and bot developer Tuomas Sandholm said. “We are running a relatively small number of hands, so this is not a scientific experiment.”
The human team that lost Monday was led by 2016 WSOP bracelet winner and venture capitalist Alan Du. The team also included other businessmen.
The match was organized by Hainan’s government and Sinovation Ventures, which is led by a CMU grad and former faculty member.
An earlier version of CMU’s bot called Claudico lost to its human opponents in 2015. That team included Doug Polk, widely regarded as the top heads-up player in the world.
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