Carnegie Mellon Computer Poker Program Sets Its Own Texas Hold'Em Strategy

You don't necessarily need to know much about poker to create a computer program that can play a winning hand of Texas Hold'Em. A knowledge of game theory is at the heart of the new poker robot called GS1. GS1 is not yet equal to the best human players. It outperformed two leading "pokerbots" in playing Texas Hold'Em in tests. Both of GS1's opponents were commercially available programs that incorporate the expertise of human poker players. GS1, by contrast, develops its strategy after performing an automated analysis of poker rules. An improved version, GS2, will compete in the American Association for Artificial Intelligence's first Computer Poker Competition.