Filed Under: Online Casino, Online Poker, Online Poker News, Online Poker Tournaments, PokerCoder, Rise of the Poker Bots | by: Jazzy

Man-Machine Poker Competition Results: Professional Players Defeated by Polaris Pokerbot

Wrapping up JazzyBets coverage of the 2nd Annual PokerBot Championships, over the weekend, the Man vs. Machine Poker match was held with University of Alberta’s Computer Poker Research Group’s Polaris-2 Pokerbot pitted against professional poker players Nick “stoxtrader” Grudzien, Matt “Hoss_TBF” Hawrilenko, and IJay “doughnutz” Palansky. The Polaris Pokerbot won two matches against the professional poker player teams, with one match-up concluding in a draw.

Here are the official Pokerbot competition results:

Match Number Player Amount Won Player Amount Won Difference Result
Live 1 Nick Grudzien -$42000 Kyle Hendon +$37000 -$5000 Draw
Live 2 Rich McRoberts +$89500 Victor Acosta -$39500 +$50000 Humans Win
Live 3 Mark Newhouse +$251500 IJay Palansky -$307500 -$56000 Polaris Wins
Live 4 Matt Hawrilenko -$60500 IJay Palansky -$29000 -$89500 Polaris Wins
Filed Under: Online Poker Tournaments | by: Jazzy

Hollywood Poker Tournaments Update

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Filed Under: Online Poker, Online Poker EU, Online Poker News, Online Poker Tournaments, Online Poker USA, Rise of the Poker Bots | by: Jazzy

Read ‘em and Weep SNG No Limit Hold’em! ICM-Bot Officially Released

ICM Bot - Pokerbot released on Jazzybets.com

After much anticipation and excitement among the tech-saavy internet poker community, ICM-Bot , the most advanced multi-tabling poker bot ever developed, is officially released. Here is a quick snapshot of the awesome features for the product launch of this incredible poker bot.

Kung fu grip for Multi-Tabling poker

  • The ICM Bot plays with optimal effeciency at up to eight tournament tables at once

Wide range of game types

ICM Bot is created for No Limit hold’em sit and go tournaments. Whether 9-player or 10-player, you’ll be ripping pots and sitting out opponents to your heart’s delight.

  • 9-player NL hold’em sit & go
  • 9-player NL hold’em sit & go [turbo]
  • 10-player NL hold’em sit & go
  • 10-player NL hold’em sit & go [turbo]

Highly Advanced Proprietary Game Theory

ICM-Bot uses a highly advanced combination of these game and probability theories to maximize your odds and leverage your best winning potentials.

Stealth Security Options

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Filed Under: Online Poker, Online Poker Tournaments, Online Poker USA, Rise of the Poker Bots | by: Jazzy

Human vs. Pokerbot Challenge Coverage

Some the biggest winning players in online poker history are gathering together this summer for a match-up with the infamous Polaris 2- the most technologically sophisticated poker Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine in the world. This event is the second edition of the Man vs. Machine Poker Championship and is scheduled to take place during the 2008 Gaming Life Expo at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas July 3-6.

Polaris 2 was created by the University of Alberta’s Computer Poker Research Group (http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca) and is the result of several years of scientific research and thousands of man-hours of development of the Pokerbot logic.

The human players slated to join in the match are professional poker coaches or contributors to the widely recognized online poker training site Stoxpoker.com. Each of the human players participating in the challenge has won millions playing for the highest stakes against some of the best poker players in the world.

Bryce Paradis, head coach at Stoxpoker.com and winner of over 2.5 million dollars at online poker in 2007, added that “Against the current AI in Polaris 2, the average poker player would be completely dominated. The Polaris 2 team has made incredible improvements since the match last year. The most powerful change is that the AI will now learn from and adapt to its opponents’ play as the match progresses. This year’s Man vs. Machine match is going to push our team to their limit.”

In 2007, Polaris 1 competed with professionals Phil “The Unabomber” Laak and Ali Eslami in the city of Vancouver, Canada. The series ended in a very close finish, with a final score of two wins, one loss, and one statistical tie for the human team of Phil and Ali. Each round comprised of a 500 duplicate hand match, wherein the same series of cards was dealt to both players, with each one playing opposite hands in the game with the AI taking the other side. At the end of the match the total number of chips won or lost by each team determined the winner. In an effort to reduce the element of random luck to a minimum, the same format will be used again this year.

The key members of the Stoxpoker.com team are professionals Nick Grudzien, IJay Palansky, as well as Stoxpoker contributor Matt Hawrilenko, all of whom can boast well over $1M in lifetime cash-game limit hold’em winnings. Additional professional players are expected to round out the team in the coming weeks.

Filed Under: Online Poker, Online Poker News, Online Poker Tournaments, Online Poker USA, Rise of the Poker Bots | by: Jazzy

“Polaris” PokerBot vs StoxPoker Match Hots Up

This summer, during July 4-9, 2008, the Co-founder of Stoxpoker, an online poker instruction destination, is set to go head-to-head versus Polaris, a super PokerBot, that comprises of an intricate series of poker-playing computer programs created by the scientific wizards at the University of Alberta. This exciting event will be held at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas during the Gaming Life expo.

One of the duo of human competitors is slated to be Nick “Stoxtrader” Grudzien, the wildly successful high-stakes online poker player and co-founder of Stoxpoker. His partner in Pokerbot decimation has yet to be named, although sources say the player will be chosen from the elite clan of Stoxpoker pros. The Pokerbot showdown represents a chance for Polaris the PokerBot — and its creators, the University of Alberta’s Computer Poker Research Group (CPRG) — to seek cold, sweet revenge on its rather narrow defeat last July to poker professionals, Phil Laak and Ali Eslami.

The event is set to take on a similar format to that used for last year’s match-up which took place in Vancouver at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. There will be a series of 500-hand “duplicate” matches of fixed-limit hold’em, meaning in each match the two human competitors will simultaneously play 500 hands of LHE against Polaris, with the same series of cards being dealt in both contests; only the hole cards will be reversed. The total number of chips won or lost by each team will then be added together to determine the winner of that match. Following the “duplicate” poker format lessens the luck factor, making the match a more accurate measure of the relative poker-playing skill of the humans and that of Polaris.

“My goal will be to stay aggressive and to avoid tendencies that can be exploited,” says Grudzien. Such a strategy will no doubt be necessary. Prior to last summer’s competition, Jonathan Schaeffer, chair of the Computing Science department at the University of Alberta and head of the CPRG, explained that Polaris is has in fact been designed in such a way that it “learns, adapts, and exploits the weaknesses of any opponent.”