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Man vs Machine in Poker Showdown

20 Jul 2005

In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue Supercomputer played a well-fought match with reigning World Chess Champion, Garry Kasparov. The machine won. In what some writers called "Deep Bluff", Poker Champion Phil Laak went head-to-head with the world's best Poker Robot on July 15, 2005, and emerged victorious.

Sponsored by Golden Palace, the World Poker Robot Championship brought together six of the world's best programmers to compete for $100,000. The winner, appropriately named Poker Probot, took down the winner-takes-all prize and won the right to challenge one of poker's best players in a battle of human versus machine. The winning robot, built by Hilton "Pocket Rockets" Givens, went on to beat the University of Alberta's robot in an exhibition match. It was Phil Laak's turn to face the machine on Sunday, July 15, 2005 at Binion's Horseshoe Casino after six robots battled for three days to determine the best poker robot in the world. Laak battled the winning robot in a three-hour limit game. While holding even for most of the first half of the competition, Laak realized that the machine was "playing too aggressive" and changed his playing style to capitalize on "his" weakness to win the match. Cheered on by an audience chanting, "humans, humans" Laak eventually won the three-hour battle consisting of over 300 hands. He closed the books on the Best Poker Robot with a game-winning pair of aces, beating his competitive computer counterpart, who had a pair of kings.

fter letting out a loud victory cry, Laak accepted numerous congratulations from the audience, a warm hug from his already famous, WSOP-bracelet winning girlfriend, actress Jennifer Tilly, and a $100 side bet that he made with the bot's programmer.

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