Carnegie Mellon University has produced another artificial intelligence bot to compete against six top Chinese poker players in no-limit Texas hold’em for a $290,000 winner-take-all purse.
This AI, named Lengpudashi or “cold poker master,” will play 36,000 hands with the pros April 6-10. Lengpudashi is another version of Libratus, an artificial intelligence bot that collected $1,766,250 in chips, a statistically significant finding, and bested four other poker pros in January.
Alan (Yue) Du leads Team Dragons, the team taking on Lengpudashi. Du won the 2016 WSOP Event #59, the $5,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em event.