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Sponsors Rise of the Machines
Online Casino Sponsors Rise
of the Machines By staffEver since IBM’s Deep
Blue Supercomputer beat chess champion Garry Kasparov
a few years ago, the struggle between man and machine
has taken a turn towards the artificial, with poker
becoming the latest game to be potentially dominated
by robot intelligence.
The machines now have their very own championship
tournament with the World Series Of Poker Robots
at Binion’s Casino in Sin City that ran from
July 12 to 20. The robots battled for three days
until “PokerProbot”, a program written
by Hilton 'Print' Givens of Lafayette, Indiana,
emerged victorious to win the $100,000 grand prize
offered by online casino GoldenPalace.com.
Not everyone was pleased when the tournament was
announced, with online poker players branding the
tournament as essentially a cheating competition.
'I've had a lot of angry e-mail. That surprised
me,' said Ken Mages, the event's creator. He contested
one Internet report that called him an unethical
loser. 'I might be a loser, but I'm not unethical.'
Steve Baker, a spokesman for GoldenPalace.com,
said it would be naive to think that people wouldn't
use poker bots anyway. Baker thinks the event might
actually help online poker sites find ways to protect
their customers.
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