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AI smokes 5 poker champs at a time in no-limit Hold’em with ‘relentless consistency’

The machines have proven their superiority in one-on-one games like chess and go, and even poker — but in complex multiplayer versions of the card game humans have retained their edge... until now.

Carnegie Mellon’s ‘Superhuman AI’ bests leading Texas Hold’em poker pros

A new paper published by Science today details how Libratus, an AI developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon’s computer science department, managed to take on and defeat top industry professio

Of course a venture capitalist was no match for CMU’s updated poker-playing AI

Libratus, Carnegie Mellon's poker-playing AI, is damn good. It easily routed four of the world's best poker players back in January over 120,000 hands of No-Limit Texas Hold-um. So it comes as no surp

Crunch Report | ACLU Enrolls in Y Combinator

We are joined by the CEO of Product Hunt, which was just acquired by AngelList, the ACLU enrolls in Y Combinator, Daimler builds a self-driving car for Uber and top poker players lose to an AI develop

Carnegie Mellon creates a poker-playing AI that can beat the pros

To be great at poker you gotta know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, and know when to core dump. That’s only part of the technique a new AI system created by re

Splitmo’s Poker Night TV Offers A Perfect Use Case For Apple TV As A Gaming Device

The Apple TV is already a game console, in case you didn't know, and a new app from independent developer and AirPlay-focused startup Splitmo shows why. The company has just released Poker Night TV, i

Online Gaming Group bwin.party Sells Poker Network Ongame To Amaya For Up To $32.2M

Canada's Amaya Gaming is to buy bwin.party's B2B poker network Ongame in a deal worth up to €25 million ($32.2 million). An initial payment of €15 million ($19.3 million) is payable in cash on com

Nokia Grows Something: Zynga Deal Now Includes Draw Something, Poker For 100M Asha Feature Phones

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.nokia.com">Nokia</a> is getting ready to reveal a new line of devices for its struggling smartphone business but it is also <a target="_blank" href="http://press.no

Aces Hangout Is Bringing Live, Face-to-Face Poker To Google+ Hangouts

<a href="http://aceshangout.com/" target="_blank">Aces Hangout</a> is a new, in development product from the team at <a href="http://hettemabergsten.com/blog" target="_blank">Hettema&Bergsten</a

Jason Calacanis' Poker Face

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/calacanis-poker-face.png"> In our ongoing coverage of the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/06/11/calacanis-facebook-profile/">life</a> an

Poker.org sold for $1 Million, Most Ever For .org Domain

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/casinoroyale.jpg?w=201" alt="" title="casinoroyale" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-159755" /><a href="http://www.sedo.com">Sedo</a>, a

Use a guitar controller to play poker

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/guitar.jpg">Bored? Lazy? Trendy? All of the above? You can turn a run-of-the-mill Guitar Hero or Rock Band controller into a weapon used

Sexual Innuendo And Poker Chips

I do my best not to post actual commercials on CG, but it’s the weekend and this commercial is very silly. I’ve gotten a chance to use the product, The Original Poker Chip Customizer, a bi

Orignal Poker Chip Customizer: Liquor Up Front, Poker In The Rear

If you play a lot of poker and want to turn your basement into a personal, private casino for your high-rollin’ friends, you’ll want to pick up the The Original Poker Chip Customizer. For