What Makes Libratus the Best Poker Player in the World?

Libratus, the artificial intelligence (AI) engine designed by Professor Tuomas Sandholm at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and his graduate student Noam Brown has made an impression on Jason Les, one of the world's top poker players. Poker News, the poker industry's online news magazine, recently interviewed Les. A couple questions were telling when asked about which is a better name for his firstborn child and which is the more annoying opponent, Claudico or Libratus. For both questions, he responded with Libratus.[1],[2] In January, Les and three others of the world's top four poker champions--Dong Kim, Daniel McAulay, and Jimmy Chou--were challenged to 20 days of No-limit Heads-up Texas Hold'em poker at the Brains versus Artificial Intelligence tournament in Pittsburgh's Rivers Casino.