Poker news tagged with 'poker bot'

In a continuous effort to enforce fairness and security for all players on the site, partypoker revealed that it has successfully closed 121 more ‘bot' accounts in July 2019 as well as they seized $76,267 and €88,351 to be redistributed to players.

Read more » partypoker Closes 121 More Bot Accounts in July 2019; $76,267 and €88,351 Seized

A brand new poker-playing bot was developed by the same group of researchers who presented Libratus back in 2017, and this time, it had successfully defeated a team of top poker players in a 6-handed NLHE game.

Facebook worked with researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University spearheaded by CMU professor Tuomas Sandholm and his graduate student Noam Brown, who scheduled a showdown featuring the latest version of the AI poker supercomputer called "Pluribus" versus some of the top poker players in the industry, and the results, published earlier this month in the journal Science, were remarkable. The bot managed to beat down its opponents, something no other AI before has achieved (previous AI programs can only win at a two-player poker game). It is expected that the outcome of this project shall have major implications on AI research and the game of poker itself.

Read more » AI Poker Bot Pluribus Beats Top Pros in Multiplayer NLHE, Costs only $144 to Run

In a continuous effort to enforce fairness and security for all players on the site, partypoker revealed that it has successfully closed 67 more ‘bot' accounts in June 2019 as well as they seized $24,257 and €8,888 to be redistributed to players.

Read more » partypoker Closes 67 More Bot Accounts in June 2019; $24,257 and €8,888 Seized

In 2017, an A.I. bot called Libratus, made headlines as it managed to beat some of the most accomplished poker players in the world in a game of no-limit Texas hold'em. Recently, the A.I. bot is making headlines again as it had been signed-up and the team that manages it to work for the military.

Read more » A.I. Libratus that beat poker pros will be tested by the Pentagon for Military Applications

Isaac Haxton is an online poker legend who in January has become one of the ambassadors for partypoker. The 32-year old gaming professional has $16 million in lifetime tournament scores as well as several millions more in online cash games, has left PokerStars in 2016 in favor of partypoker.

Read more » Partypoker pro Isaac Haxton Says Most Top Poker Players Use AI to Improve their Game

Libratus, a name for an artificial intelligence bot that made headlines a month back after defeating a team of accomplished poker professionals, is proof that computer programs are now intelligent enough to beat even the best of humans in the tricky card game of no-limit Texas hold'em poker.

Read more » AI Program ‘DeepStack' Beat NLHE Pros before Libratus

Following the controversial "Confessions of a Botter (ACR/WPN)" thread on the 2+2 forums, the Winning Poker Network (WPN) has officially declared war on all poker bots.  Phil Nagy, CEO of WPN, has had enough and said that the war is on and "there would be casualties."

Read more » WPN Declares War On Poker Bots - Themadbotter Is Back

In today's fast-paced world of the ever increasing dynamics of technological advancements, most of us believe that poker bots do exist; however, it is very rare to read about it in the Internet on how they win, what things you need to watch out for, and what it takes to remain undetected when botting, and of course, no one in their right mind would divulge these tactics online for all to see if they want to become truly successful in botting.

Read more » Poker Bot Creator Boasts On Successful Botting Fefore Retiring, Then Retracts Statement

A few days after PokerStars announced that they will be seriously implementing strong measures to prevent cheating amongst players, a bot-scandal suddenly reared its ugly head at the final table of Event #8 of its high-profile tournament festival, the TCOOP (Turbo Championship of Online Poker).

Read more » Russian Player Suspected of Being a Bot Makes It To PokerStars' TCOOP Final Table

Between April 24 and May 8, four of poker's best high-stakes heads-up players took on poker bot Claudico (a computer program created by a team at Carnegie Mellon University) in 80,000 hands of heads-up no-limit Texas Hold'em (play money). The rules were very simple: whoever was up after 80k hands would be considered the winner.

Read more » Poker Pros Win Against Computer Program

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.

Read more » Cepheus, The Unbeatable Poker Program