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AI Beats Four Top Poker Players

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Re: AI Beats Four Top Poker Players

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The University of Alberta bot has been beating top pros at limit hold'em for over 10 years.

no-limit and tournament play were deliberately placed outside the scope of their poker-bot projects--at least during the period of time i was following it which was approx. 2004 - 2010.

anyone know if the CMU team trained their rig on these variants?

Re: AI Beats Four Top Poker Players

#182
post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These pros are considered to be top 20 HU online specialists, they would destroy Negreanu and Ivey over the long run at this particular variant (which they have played millions of hands at).

Back when I played poker (up to ~2010), Negreanu was mostly a celebrity, as well as a pretty good blog writer. He was no match for the best pro players, but perhaps he has dramatically improved. Ivey was pretty good at managing his image, too.

Say that all you want, those guys play(ed? I'm out of the loop) in the big game, and...whoever you're thinking of, basically--didn't.

Re: AI Beats Four Top Poker Players

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Do a search for "long term" in online poker and you'll find that the suggestion for players to determine their level of play based on that "long term" is something like one million hands. That's running 4 tables for full days of poker over a long period of time. For sure it's playing more than 4 players. The probability space of poker is such that 4 competitors isn't going to tell you much. And defining "top" is diff…

From the article: > A poker-playing AI has beaten four human players in a marathon match lasting 20 days. 20 days seems like plenty of time. No ?

No, the number of hands is relevant here, not the number of days played.

Re: AI Beats Four Top Poker Players

#184
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just showing your ignorance. That margin of victory over that many hands isn't luck or coincidence. The pros were absolutely dominated.

I disagree and it's not ignorance on my part. Due to the nature of the poker and heavily weighted component of luck, a terrible AI can theoretically win. I am sure the AI they built is a mighty and spectacular achievement, but poker is about the only game I know where the worst player can easily beat the best player. Prove me wrong and I'll happily accept your insult of "ignorance" edit I should have been more clear,…

> " I am referring to the context of a standard tournament where the loser is eliminated after losing their chips."

Why would you refer to that? That's not at all what happened here.

In the game that was played (long-term HUNL cash) the worst player cannot beat the best player at all. Not easily, not at all.

Not to mention they didn't run the cards out.

You're commenting without reading the article, seemingly.

Re: AI Beats Four Top Poker Players

#185

it won't be long before we hearing more headlines like: "AI beats top 10 hedge fund managers" to "AI run hedge fund blows up due to black swan event" regardless it's an incredible feat. It really casts questions into what our edge as humans are which is slowly disappearing and we didn't even need to put a brain in a jar and hook it up to a computer....it's deep learning reinforced algorithms that is appearing to outl…

> "So the question is, how does an average joe hacker like me exploit and leverage this wonderful thing called deep learning? I'm not interested in reading PHD papers with advanced calculus." FFS, if you're not willing to read a paper with BASIC CALCULUS (it's HS/college, not advanced like fractional), then I'm not sure machine learning is the right place for you.

I'd argue that reading academic papers on DL is hardly the only or even a good way to get into DL for an average Joe Hacker. "... if you're not willing to read a paper with BASIC CALCULUS ... then I'm not sure machine learning is the right place for you" is the exclusion attitude. It does not have to be that way. I'm glad there are projects like http://www.fast.ai/ which aim to change that.

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Once this is out, it's going to be have a big impact on online poker games. They way things are going with AI. You have a good algorithm, you can get rich very quickly by being a one man business with hardware rented in AWS. Libratus AI player is modelling it's human counterparts and predicting how they think to outsmart them. When Google started, they got the page rank algorithm and distributed algorithms good enoug…

Not if you have uBlock (http://ublock.org/) installed.

Re: AI Beats Four Top Poker Players

#187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm glad you posted it because it shows how little people understand their engineer's financial importance. Granted, engineers are required to create products and maintain it. You need product to sell. But at the marginal level for every dollar your sales person makes your engineer is not. You might argue but the product is generating revenues but that's not what drives a sale. A sale is a function of value derived f…

If good engineers are dime a dozen then why do they command >200k salary? I don't think you understand how much skill and practice goes into making a good programmer. Your ignorance is truly astonishing.

I find this thread mildly amusing. It's like both engineers and businessmen thought themselves irreplaceable. And yet, 'The graveyards are full of indispensable men.'

Re: AI Beats Four Top Poker Players

#188
This article is related to no-limit heads-up, which requires a very different style of play than no-limit full ring. Full ring would be significantly more difficult to beat by AI. So the title leaves out some very important information. I am not surprised they beat heads-up; I would have expected it sooner.

Re: AI Beats Four Top Poker Players

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post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back when I played poker (up to ~2010), Negreanu was mostly a celebrity, as well as a pretty good blog writer. He was no match for the best pro players, but perhaps he has dramatically improved. Ivey was pretty good at managing his image, too.

Say that all you want, those guys play(ed? I'm out of the loop) in the big game, and...whoever you're thinking of, basically--didn't.

Conversely, not many of the celebrity players have had much success playing online. Ivey did have some good years but even he has been struggling for the past few years.

Almost all pros who have had success both online and live agree that live games a ridiculously soft compared to online games. The reason more online pros don't play live is because you have to live in Las Vegas or Macau to play a the highest stakes, or you have to be invited. Also, the big live games are usually mixed games that don't afford a huge edge to online pros who specialise in a few games.

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