‘Bluffbot 2.0′ Wins No-Limit Computer Poker Showdown at AI Seminar
The recent, much-hyped ‘Man-Machine Poker Championship’ match-up pitting pros Phil Laak and Ali Eslami against a software program named Polaris might have drawn plenty of poker-media coverage, but it wasn’t the only result from this year’s
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Useful poker information:
- 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".
- WIRED [PAIR] - A pair in the hole. In 5-card stud, a door card that pairs the hole card.
- NUT / NUTS - The best possible hand of a given class. Not a LOCK unless all cards have been dealt. The "nut flush" is the highest possible flush, but might still lose to, e.g., a full house. Usually used in Hold'em games.
- READ - To determine whether an opponent has a good, medium or bad hand by observing his personal behavior. An inexact science.
- DRAWING DEAD - A draw in which it is impossible to obtain a winning hand for any of a variety of reasons: an opponent's hand is better than whatever you are drawing to, the card(s) that make your hand are out of play, or (in Hold'em) give an opponent a stronger hand even if it makes yours. Frequently used in the past tense, since one rarely knows it at the time.
- OVERPAIR - In Hold'em, a pair in the hole that is larger than any community card on the board.
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