From the dusty saloons of Mississippi to those of the Old Far West, passing through modern casinos up to the latest online versions. The game of poker has always been in constant evolution. In recent years it has embarked on a new path, for a future that promises to be even more futuristic and revolutionary. We are referring to artificial intelligence, which has predominantly entered the world of poker.
An information technology that completely overturns the canons of how man interacts with machines, allowing him to make a series of complex choices, similar to those of the human mind. Challenge the greatest world poker champions and beat them: how is it possible? It is enough to train the artificial intelligence to play against other machines, to understand the main mistakes not to make. In a second phase, challenge real users, storing data and choices at the tables of humans. Finally, once the tests are over, take on the Las Vegas champions.
A game that, especially in the Texas Hold’em variant, has today achieved considerable popularity among users on the web. Anyone who is over 18 can participate, just register on one of the best online poker sites to challenge opponents, at any time of day or night, via PC or mobile device.
Some concerns emerged among fans when they learned of the existence of an artificial program, capable of studying the moves of the opponents, understanding their “tells” and adopting the most profitable countermeasures. In practice, predicting the strategies of the other players sitting at the table, whether they are newbies or professionals, it doesn’t matter: the software makes the best decision.
An artificial intelligence that has even learned to bluff, just like it happens in the best poker video games. The question that arises, however, is the following: will he become more skilled than a human in the game? Will we find ourselves challenging machines instead of other humans? At the moment it is not known what the boundaries will be in the near future, although it has already been shown that in the face of incomplete information, computers correctly interpret the games of humans.
Just a recent American research has tested what the potential of artificial intelligence can be. A program called “Pluribus” played Texas Hold’em against some champions, including the popular one Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, winner of the 2000 WSOP Main Event and five other career bracelets. Therefore, not just anybody but a true professional of the green table. The experiment saw the participation of Chris, four other level players and the “computer”. After a series of 10,000 hands played, the winner was “Pluribus”.
Nowadays artificial intelligences are used in the most varied sectors, from medicine to the treatment of common pathologies to astronomy, from automation in industries up to gaming. The videogame sector and specifically that of poker, has understood its potential more recently. Identifying hands that haven’t proved profitable in the long run has attracted the attention of big players and the poker industry. Here, therefore, has explained in recent years the multiplication of legal software, able to help players make the best decisions. Currently almost all online professionals make use of programs that allow you to analyze the hands played, to make the optimal choices with the highest probability of success.
Once they have learned their history and the mistakes made, players learn from the software which are automatically the most profitable moves at the tables, without being influenced by the emotions typical of poker. Basically they play like a “machine” and in the long run they make money – after all, the real goal of every professional at the green table.
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