Do people save in front of the car?

We’ll get the answer to the title question in a couple of days, when all the games of the next stage of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas will be played. The fact is that this time during the competition there will be a game between the Canadian Polaris program and three card professionals Nick Grundzien, Ijay Palansky and Matt Hawrilenko. The brainchild of developers from the University of Alberta already "sat down" at the table with serious opponents last year, but that time was unsuccessful for her.

However, luck is just one of the factors that influence the outcome of a poker game. To find out how important it is in comparison with the ability to always make the most probabilistically justified decisions and the organizers of the tournament conceived.

The tournament will consist of several matches of 500 hands each. Protein and electronic gentlemen will play seven-card limited Texas Hold'em. The advantage of Polaris, in addition to gigaflops of computing power, is complete peace of mind and composure. However, the program does not know how to analyze the opponent’s behavior, so the psychological factor in such a game is nullified.

In general, I want to say that we do not need such poker.