Yikes! It’s finally happening. Orwellian predictions are coming true right before our eyes! Just when you thought online poker technology couldn’t get any more advanced, along comes an announcement by the Computer Poker Research Group at the University of Alberta that it has managed to improve the original Polaris computer and bring it to a decent play level. In the past, Polaris has managed to boast a fair game of heads up limit hold ‘em against Phil Laak and Ali Eslami by pulling one win and one draw in four matches. After several years of work, the Research Group announced that Polaris is now ready to take on tougher games in the form of heads up no limit hold ‘em and the group said that it has managed to reach ‘low-level professional level’. We wait with baited breath to see the new and improved Polaris take on today’s greats such as Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey.
A couple of one liners in the spirit of poker:
What is the difference between a professional poker player and God?
God doesn’t think that he’s a professional poker player.
Why didn’t the elephants like to play poker in the jungle?
Because there are too many cheetahs.
A couple of cowboys were playing poker in an Old West saloon. One of them laid down the winning hand. The other jumped up and yelled: “He’s cheatin’! He aint playin’ the cards I dealt him!”