 Libratus program developed by two Carnegie Mellon researchers Professor Tuomas Sandholm and grad student Noam Brown won the 20-day poker tournament Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante. The machine won more than $ 1.7 million in chips.
Until recently it has been concidered impossible for artificial intellingence to defeat people in games with incomplete information like poker. In 2015 Claudico program played with four professional players and ranked third. For two weeks, only one scored fewer chips than the computer after having played 80,000 hands. As we can see now, developments in the field of machine learning have allowed computers to make a 'historic' step forward.
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 Mr M from South America had 955,308 reasons to smile this Christmas season as he struck PartyCasino Gold Mega Jackpot while playing their jackpot slot Super Mystic.
Spinning at a total cost of $2.25 per game, the lucky player got a massive return of 424,581x his bet and secured himself a $955,308 Christmas present.
Speaking after the win, a delighted Mr M told PartyCasino that the prize was “a huge amount of money” for him and that it had come at a “great time” just before Christmas. He intends to use his winnings to buy a new house.
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 All Christmas bells have tinkled early for three PokerStars players today. A $100 Spin & Go tournament had gone off for the $1.2 million jackpot, and three players (the first one from Belarus, the second from Russia, and the last one from Bermuda) started to fight for it.
As happens in these super-fast three-handed events, the Belarus player, netspider_by was quickly shortstacked. Though he got it in good with K♦6♣, REVELKOF ran out a club flush with 6♠Q♣ and took the chip lead.
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 As you may know, PokerStars have decided to make the 13th season of European Poker Tour final in the history of the series. Thus, at the moment we can observe the final EPT stop in the Czech Republic capital. So what poker players should expect after the final EPT Prague 2016?
All greatest offline poker events, including EPT, APPT, LAPT, PCA, Estrellas, Eureka, are now combined under one brand - PokerStars Live with the global PokerStars Championship and the regionally-focused PokerStars Festival. Aussie Millions and Brazilian Series of Poker (BSOP) will remain after the rebranding.
PokerStars Live already operates its own website with enhanced online platform that allows players to create their own PSLive account and register for live tournaments using their PSLive wallet.
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 Casino owner, antique dealer and recreational poker player Leon Tsoukernik of Czech Republic was crowned the winner of the EPT Prague €50,000 Super High Roller on Tuesday after having bested an extremely tough field consisting of many of the world's best tournament players, including poker prodigy Charlie Carrel heads-up. Carrel, 23, and Tsoukernik, 43, seem to have captivated all observers since they ended up at the same table for the first time on Sunday afternoon.
"Less than an hour into their acquaintance, they exchanged heated words over a misunderstanding over an alleged angle shoot. (There was no guilty party.) But since then they played almost non-stop against one another, earning each other's respect. Carrel knocked out Tsoukernik on Day 1, and Tsoukernik bought back in, landing in the exact seat he had left. Tsoukernik then paid €600 for a bottle of whisky and they buried the hatchet over the brown stuff," Howard Swains wrote on PokerStars Blog.
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