{"id":5625,"date":"2015-01-08T23:52:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T23:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5625"},"modified":"2015-01-08T23:52:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T23:52:05","slug":"the-computer-program-billed-as-unbeatable-at-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5625","title":{"rendered":"The computer program billed as unbeatable at poker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Star has a nice story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/insight\/2015\/01\/08\/the_computer_program_billed_as_unbeatable_at_poker.html\">The computer program billed as unbeatable at poker<\/a>, about a <a href=\"http:\/\/poker.srv.ualberta.ca\/\">poker playing program Cepehus<\/a> that was developed at\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca\/~games\/poker\/\">Computer Poker Research here at the University of Alberta<\/a>. Michael Bowling is quoted to the effect that,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No matter what you do, no matter how strong a player you are, even if you look at our strategy in every detail . . . there is no way you are going to be able of have any realistic edge on us.<\/p>\n<p>On average we are playing perfectly. And that\u2019s kind of the average that really matters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can play\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/poker.srv.ualberta.ca\/\">Cepehus<\/a>\u00a0at their web site. You can read their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/347\/6218\/145\">paper &#8220;Heads-up limit hold\u2019em poker is solved&#8221;, just published in Science here<\/a>\u00a0(DOI: 10.1126\/science.1259433).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Star has a nice story, The computer program billed as unbeatable at poker, about a poker playing program Cepehus that was developed at\u00a0the Computer Poker Research here at the University of Alberta. Michael Bowling is quoted to the effect that, No matter what you do, no matter how strong a player you are, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5625\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The computer program billed as unbeatable at poker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,37,5,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-high-performance-computing","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5626,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions\/5626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}