A group of Canadian programmers and researchers at University of of Alberta have created what they claim to be the first unbeatable Limit Hold'em program. The program is called "Cepheus" and the devolopers believe that not even the best players in the world would win against it in the long run.
In order to learn the game, Cepheus played more than a billion billion hands of Texas hold'em - more p[...] Read more » Cepheus, The Unbeatable Poker Program
So I went to this website to test my knowledge and skill level (LOL at both of course) against this so called 'machine' and it said to me: Temporarily Offline. We are undergoing temporary maintenance. Please check back soon! I think Skynet is a couple years away still and unless they are not able to use some trustable servers and good processors Cepheus will be kaput too. It's just ridiculous they go with this to any news outlet and when the reader deicide to check them out they aren't online no more.
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Posted by bowie1984: So I went to this website to test my knowledge and skill level (LOL at both of course) against this so called 'machine' and it said to me: Temporarily Offline. We are undergoing temporary maintenance. Please check back soon! I think Skynet is a couple years away still and unless they are not able to use some trustable servers and good processors Cepheus will be kaput too. It's just ridiculous they go with this to any news outlet and when the reader deicide to check them out they aren't online no more.
and prolly the reason for that is because someone figured out how it makes decisions and beat it a couple times and now they try to fix that
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When I first saw this story and checked out the website it was undergoing maintenance but then it allowed play on the software though said you would have to play 100's of hands to realise the full potential but then it was down again soon after.Maybe they should have been a bit more patient before stating it played perfect poker.
