Poker AI outbluffs China's top poker players – All Tech Asia – Medium

Lengpudashi, the "Cold Poker Master," arrived in Hainan to face the top Texas Hold'Em players in China for a USD 290,000 winner-takes-all purse. His opponents were serious players -- Team Dragons was led by Yue (Alan) Du, a venture capitalist and amateur player who was the first Chinese mainlander to win a trophy at the World Series of Poker. But none of them was a match for Lengpudashi, an artificial intelligence bot developed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University. The event, organized by former Greater China President of Google and venture capitalist Kai-fu Lee, followed anearlier showdown in January where Lengpudashi's older version Libratus beat four of the world's top poker professionals in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Unlike Google's AlphaGo's triumph over 18-time world champion Lee Sedol last year, there was not so much fanfare in this event.