This past spring, man proved better than machine at no-limit hold'em after four professional poker players joined forced to defeat 'Claudico', a poker bot powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that was developed by a computer science team at Carnegie Melon University (CMU).
During their challenge, the group of four poker pros played 80,000 hands of heads-up poker against Claudico, winning $732,713 in the process.
From April 24 to May 8, Doug Polk, Bjorn Li, Dong Kim, and Jason Les each dedicated two weeks of hard play against the poker bot.