2007 July 22 Poker News, Events and Happenings

VANCOUVER, BC — As reported by The Guardian: “A showdown pitting human brains against artificial intelligence goes ahead this evening when two professional poker players take on a computer in the world’s first such man-machine challenge.

PHIL Laak, an international poker champion, has a good chance of winning when he sits down today to play 2,000 hands of Texas Hold’em - against a computer.

A showdown pitting human brains against artificial intelligence is to go ahead this evening when two professional poker players take on a computer in the world’s first such man-machine challenge.

Some Bay County folks are calling Sgt. Joshua Cope their hometown hero. More than 100 people showed their appreciation to the young soldier by holding a poker benefit run to raise money for him and his family.

Poker champion Phil Laak has a good chance of winning when he sits down this week to play 2,000 hands of Texas Hold’em against a computer. It may be the last chance he gets. Computers have gotten a lot better at poker in recent years; they’re good enough now to challenge top professionals like Laak.

In what is being touted as the "First Man-Machine Poker Championship," Phil Laak and Ali Eslami will compete for real money against Polaris, a poker-playing computer program developed by a research team at the University of Alberta…

In part one of our interview with Congressman Robert Wexler yesterday, we discussed the piece of legislation that he recently introduced into Congress. In part two of the interview, Wexler talks about the process that must be undertaken….