Devastating Chess Computer Looks to Poker

When online poker players complain about poker bots, they are worried about small computer applications that are playing mathematically perfect hands, immune to distraction, human error, and going on tilt. If Monty Newborn, a professor of computer science at McGill University, has it right, there might be a lot more to worry about in the future. Newborn has targeted poker and the Japanese game of “Go” as the next two targets for computer programmers, now that the chess program “Deep Fritz” has proved its superiority by beating the reigning world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik in a six-game chess match.

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Sat, December 9th, 2006

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  • FLOP - [1] In Hold'em, the first three community cards, dealt simultaneously. [2] To deal a flop, or to make a hand on a flop. "I flopped trips".
  • BIG SLICK - In Texas Hold'em, hole cards of A-K, suited or not.
  • FOURTH STREET - In stud poker, the fourth card dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the fourth community card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is TURN (q.v.).
  • WALK - A pot won by the last blind when no one opens.
  • DOOR [CARD] - A player's first upcard in stud games.
  • ON TILT - Playing worse (usually, more aggressively) than usual because a player has become emotionally upset.
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