AI technology has been successfully implemented in the gambling industry. And poker gaming is not an exception. Professional poker players have already discovered a unique and extremely effective strategy using AI technology in poker playing. GBC Time has collected the most interesting facts about AI innovation in the poker industry below in the blog post.
The poker industry has been transforming into a high-competitive market, where professional players must find exclusive strategies to win. In the modern digital days, such a technological innovation as AI is used in almost every possible niche to achieve new goals. Poker is one of them as well.
Some of the best professional poker players already started using their secret weapon – Artificial Intelligence to set up their special exclusive formula for winning.
PioSOLVER poker program
Professional poker player Seth Davis was one of the participants in the World Series of Poker. When a game went to an end, a player decided to bluff and declared that he was “all-in” for the round.
At that time luck was on his side, and David’s opponent folded, which lead to an absolute victory.
The secret weapon of Seth Davis at that match was a strategy that he found out through the PioSOLVER program based on AI technology. This program became a significant reformer in poker strategic playing, However, compared to the AI used in Go and chess, poker is a bit more complicated because an opponent’s hand in poker is in secret.
Pluribus poker bot
In 2015, the Science magazine published an article by researchers at the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. The researchers reported about the brand-new program that is able to calculate the best action course for a variant of poker called Limit Texas Hold’em.
After the massive boom of PioSOLVER, more scientists and developers started programming even more AI-based programs. Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in a collaboration with Facebook announced Pluribus, a poker-playing bot with the high-strategic skills in Texas Hold’em.
In total, Pluribus played 10 000 hands against 5 other players with million-dollar wins. The bot overplayed all of the professional players and averagely won $480 for evet 100 hands.
Pluribus is considered to be one of the top AI-based poker programs thanks to the exclusive approach. This bot is able to play against more than just one player at the same time.
According to scientists, the Pluribus program may also be used in reaching solutions for many common problems like self-driving cars, fraud detection, drug development, and cybersecurity.
