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Regardless, this is the first time that Polaris has bested human opponents of that caliber. The AI team behind Polaris made it tougher to beat by having the program change it’s play at certain points in the match. This helped plug a hole in one of the weaknesses previous opponents had exploited. They also had the program analyze how it could have played the hand differently to get a different outcome. This helped it learn from mistakes and constantly adjust to the conditions of the game.

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EDMONTON – A computer created by a group of U of A programmers changed the face of poker on Sunday night, when it defeated some of the best players in the world.

In the second man-versus-machine competition held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas over the weekend, Polaris II narrowly defeated seven players from the online poker training site stoxpoker.com.

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The 39th World Series of Poker got going in earnest Friday, and perhaps the most common question pondered about the game is this:

Luck or skill, which is it? The obvious answer, of course, is:

Both.

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Fantasy Sports: A Game Of Skill That Is Implicitly Legal Under State Law, And Now Explicitly Legal Under Federal Law (Jon Boswell, 1/29/08)

Poker Is Good For You (David Sklansky & Alan N. Schoonmaker, Ph.D., 09/07)

Harvard Ponders Just What It Takes To Excel at Poker: Prof. Nesson and Others Stress the Skill Involved; Why It’s a Legal Issue (Wall Street Journal, 05/03/07)

Poker vs. The Law: Should Internet Gambling Be Illegal? (William M. Grady, 2007)

Poker Superstars: Skill or Luck? (Peter Fishman and Devin G. Pope, 12/04/06)

Poker Flops under New York Law (Bennett M. Liebman, 11/1/06)

Poker: Public Policy, Law, Mathematics and The Future of an American Tradition (Anthony Cabot, Robert Hannum, 2006)

Reconsidering Regulation: A Historical View Of The Legality Of Internet Poker And Discussion Of The Internet Gambling Ban Of 2006 (Christopher Grohman, 2006)

Can playing poker be good for you? Poker as a transferable skill (Adrian Parke, Mark Griffiths, Jonathan Parke, 09/12/05)

Game Theory and Poker (Jason Swanson, 04/03/05)

Heads-Up Face-Off: On Style and Skill in the Game of Poker (Kevin Burns, 09/23/04)

Mark Twain on Science vs. Luck (George Epstein)

Poker IS Science; Algorithm is Proof (George Epstein)