Poker Faced Computer Beating Top Card Players
Eleven years ago IBM’s Big Blue computer beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov. Now it’s the poker players’ turn to be humiliated by a machine. If you think it should be easier for a computer to win at poker than at the highly intellectual game of chess, think again.
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Poker talk:
- OPEN-HANDED - A category of games characterized by a part of each player's hand being exposed.
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
- 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.
- COLD CALL - Calling both a bet and raise at the same time, as opposed to calling a bet then later calling a raise made after the call.
- SMALL BLIND - In games with two blinds the first blind is the SMALL BLIND because it is usually one-half (or less) the second or large blind.
- FULL OF - Describes a full house. "Fives full of queens" is 5-5-5-Q-Q.
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