2007 July 25 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Hidden cards and risk-taking behavior like bluffing has made poker a difficult challenge for software designers. But as in chess and checkers, the computers are catching up.

Most poker players know to watch out for card counters, bottom dealers and deck stacking.

Blog: Phil Laak and Ali Esmali, two professional poker players, face off against a computer program called Polaris and win.

VANCOUVER Two professional poker players narrowly beat a computer in what was billed as the worlds first Man-versus-machine poker championship. Phil Laak and Ali Eslami, from Los Angeles, prevailed against a program called Polaris in the fourth and final game.

Poker professionals Phil Laak and Ali Eslami have defeated a poker-playing computer program dubbed Polaris in the ‘First Man-Machine Poker Championship.’ The two-day, four-session match took place at the annual meeting of the Association…

Four men are under arrest in connection with a high-tech poker scheme in their private rooms at the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City.

It was a high-tech variation on one of the oldest tricks in the book, dating back to the Wild West saloon days — cheating unsuspecting poker players by rigging the game.