{"id":258,"date":"2019-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gbc.ng\/online-poker-is-dead-pluribus-conquers-6-max-no-limit-holdem\/"},"modified":"2019-07-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T00:00:00","slug":"online-poker-is-dead-pluribus-conquers-6-max-no-limit-holdem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gbc.ng\/index.php\/online-poker-is-dead-pluribus-conquers-6-max-no-limit-holdem\/","title":{"rendered":"ONLINE POKER IS DEAD: PLURIBUS CONQUERS 6-MAX NO-LIMIT HOLD\u2019EM"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s official, online poker is dead after artificial intelligence, from the bright minds working at Carnegie Mellon University and<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>Facebook AI Labs<\/strong>, defeats humans and algorithms alike in No-Limit Hold\u2019em Six-handed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Rob Yong<\/strong>\u00a0said he wouldn\u2019t play online poker anywhere other than partypoker\u2019s Trickett\u2019s Room.\u00a0Henrik Hecklen<\/strong>\u00a0told me that he couldn\u2019t trust online poker any longer. You get the impression that our favourite pastime is sitting on the edge of a pier with that familiar urge to jump, only there are sharks below chewing on chum.<\/p>\n

Under Yong\u2019s orders, partypoker issue a monthly press release updating the poker community on the culling of bot-controlled accounts. It does so because Yong believes the presence of artificial intelligence (AI) in online poker (be it\u00a0bots<\/strong>, or third-party software) is as attractive to newcomers as a pirate with both arms and legs, no eye patch, and a flamingo (instead of a parrot), that doesn\u2019t talk.<\/p>\n

So, this doesn\u2019t help.<\/p>\n

A new AI, created by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Facebook\u2019s AI lab, has beaten some of the world\u2019s best players in No-Limit Hold\u2019em Six-Handed action.<\/p>\n

Over 12-days, and 10,000 hands, Pluribus came out ahead during two experiments against people who can wear belts, pick fresh basil, and grow a beard. In one, the AI beat five other human beings, and in a second, Pluribus squared off against a single human being, and four AI opponents. According to theresearch paper<\/strong>,\u00a0the AI won an average of $5 per hand with hourly winnings of around $1,000. The research team called the win a \u201cdecisive margin of victory.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Pluribus didn\u2019t face off against your usual crop of poker playing tools (Ok, maybe one). Check out this lineup of heroes: Jimmy Chou, Seth Davies, Michael Gagliano, Anthony Gregg, Dong Kim, Jason Les, Linus Loeliger, Daniel McAulay, Greg Merson, Nicholas Petrangelo, Sean Ruane, Trevor Savage, and Jacob Toole.<\/p>\n

Facing Pluribus on their lonesome was the king of the World Poker Tour (WPT),\u00a0Darren Elias<\/strong>, and the king of controversy, Chris \u2018Jesus\u2019 Ferguson. The bot sent Elias and Ferguson flying into the rail like a leaf in the way of a STIGA SBP375 Petrol-Powered Back Leaf Blower, with Elias telling the press that it was \u2018pretty scary\u2019 how fast the bot went from being a mediocre player to world-class. Ferguson said the challenge with Pluribus was \u2018pinning him down on any kind of hand.\u2019<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what\u2019s more incredible, the fact that Pluribus conquered 6-Max, or that the research team pinned Ferguson down on \u2018any kind of quote.\u2019<\/p>\n

The cigarette-smoking man behind the assassination of online poker is Noam Brown, the man who helped Tuomas Sandholm create\u00a0Libratus<\/strong>, the bot that beat players of the ilk of Jason Les and\u00a0Dong Kim<\/strong>\u00a0playing Heads-Up No-Limit Hold\u2019em, back in 2017. Brown has no intention of letting Pluribus out of the garden shed to kill online poker, but given the fact that it only cost Brown $150 to train the program using cloud servers, I would consider forking out for an ABUS Aquasafe 70IB\/35 Marine Grade Padlock, just in case \u2013 otherwise, online poker is dead.<\/p>\n

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