Poker pros beat Polaris
Computer science folded yesterday as Polaris poker software was bankrupted by professional players. Phil Laak and Ali Eslami beat Polaris after four rounds in the world’s first man-versus-machine poker championship, held at Vancouver’s Hyatt Regency hotel.
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- Laak-Eslami Team Defeats Polaris in Man-Machine Poker Championship
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Poker glossary:
- FLOP GAME - Any of a number of poker games where a flop is dealt.
- TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
- BIG BLIND - A blind bet, usually a raise of an earlier blind which would be called the SMALL BLIND. In limit poker, the BIG BLIND is usually the size of the minimum bet on the first round of betting.
- PAT HAND - In draw poker, a hand that does not need any more cards. Specifically, a straight, flush, full house or straight flush. One might bluff and represent a pat hand but actually hold something else.

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