Darren Elias knows poker. The 32-year-old is the only person to have won four World Poker Tour titles and has earned more than $7 million at tournaments. Despite his expertise, he learned something ...

In recent years, artificial intelligence technology has rapidly advanced, leading to the development of poker bots able to compete against professional human players. With names like Claudico, ...

In 2018, New Yorker writer and psychologist Maria Konnikova took up poker as an experiment on luck and decision making. Within a year, she’d turned pro, won more than $200,000 (£161,312) and showed ...

Steve Blay has been programming bots for poker training for more than 10 years. When he developed Advanced Poker Training, teaching bots to play no-limit hold’em realistically was not an easy chore.

Today’s poker bots can crush even the best human players. Still, the game—one of bluffing, deception, and intention—remains technically unsolved. The emerald beast is begging me to engage. And I, of ...

Chalk up another victory for machines. In artificial intelligence, it's a milestone when a computer program can beat top players at a game like chess. But a game like poker, specifically six-player ...