BBC Radio documentary – Man v Machine Poker Championships
January 4th, 2008 | Published in Limit Holdem, Online Poker, Software
BBC Radio 4 broadcast a thirty minute programme last night about the $50,000 Man versus Machine Poker Championships that took place in Vancouver last July when Ali Eslami and Phil Laak took on the latest poker bot software created by researchers at the University of Alberta.
You can listen to the programme on the BBC website (probably for a limited time).
It’s an intelligent look at Laak and Eslami’s narrow win and the implications for the game, particularly online. There are interviews with the protagonists as well as other players like Terence Chan, who talk about how the increasing sophistication of poker software is likely to impact on their potential future earnings.
