The program first defeated two major poker champions, Darren Elias and Chris Ferguson, who each played 5,000 hands against it. Pluribus then took on 13 pros in a separate experiment, five at a time.

Even as late as May 2015, when Sandholm organized a similar poker competition at Rivers Casino pitting AI program "Claudico" against four champion poker players, Claudico lost by $732,713 in chips.

During the LAPC, the World Poker Tour polled players about adding a shot clock. According to WPT announcer Mike Sexton, 80 percent of those polled were in favor of giving players a limited time to ...

For decades, poker players have had free reign over how much time they take to make a move (opposing players can call a clock on a player after a lengthy period of non-action, but that’s usually ...

Some of the most common complaints at live poker tournaments relate to the speed of play.  Some players take an extraordinary amount of time to act on their hand. This creates slow play ...

Longtime WPT commentator and Poker Hall of Fame member Mike Sexton also voiced his support for this type change, saying that it’s “…no secret I’ve long been for Action Clock.

So it’s more than fair the World Poker Tour plans to implement a 30-second “action clock” when the tournaments get down to the nitty-gritty. Tanking, a poker term used for a player who takes ...

A computer program that taught itself to play poker has created nearly the best possible strategy for one version of the game, showing the value of techniques that may prove useful for real-world ...