2007 July 23 Poker News, Events and Happenings

But getting a computer to excel at poker has been something of a challenge. Whereas in chess and checkers, all of the necessary information is available to the computer for it to compute, in poker the players are dealing with imperfect information.

SEOUL What has longer odds? That a U.S. Forces Korea employee could place in the World Series of Poker or that he would come back to work after winning $285,000?

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — We now know what Jesus thinks. New World Series of Poker champion Jerry Yang, a 39-year-old psychologist from Temecula, Calif., proclaimed his faith in God when he won $8.25 million and the Texas hold’em world championship event at 4 a.m. Wednesday at the Rio.

Poker champion Phil Laak reckoned he had a good chance of winning when he sat down last night to play two days and 2,000 hands of Texas Hold’em - against a computer. It may be the last chance he gets. Computers have gotten a lot better a …

The world’s First Man-Machine Poker Championship pits two poker masters against a computer program called Polaris at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) conference.

London: A showdown pitting human brains against artificial intelligence was set to happen from Monday night when two professional poker players took on a computer in the worlds first such man-machine challenge. Phil Laak and Ali …

Hats off to the players, staff members, ESPN, and all the other media members who helped make the 2007 WSOP the best one ever! I had the good fortune of working as a reporter for the first time for PokerNews.com…