Poker Program Battles Humans In Vegas
Bridger writes “Poker software called Polaris will play a rematch against human players during the 2008 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Developed by an artificial intelligence group at the University of Alberta in Canada, Polaris will be pitted against several professionals at the Rio Hotel between June 3rd and 6th. ‘It’s possible, given enough computing power, for computers to play …
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Poker lingo:
- CAP - To cap the betting is to make the last permitted raise in a round.
- TOP PAIR - In flop games, having a hole card that matches the highest card on the board.
- PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
- IN - Still eligible to win the pot. "I'm in" is often spoken as one adds chips to the pot, calling.
- POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
- 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.
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