Tag: poker

  • Google Trends – What the world is searching for: one year later

    A year ago I came across some interesting statistics available through Google Trends showing, for example, how Pakistan lead the league table on the search for “sex” and “terrorism”. A year on I decided to revisit and see how the world changed (or not!). Keyword: sex Last year we saw Pakistan topping the country ranking…

  • Advance in AI may bring ‘bluffer’ type bots to online poker

    new poker AI bot in the making… from http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/mg19426066.600-software-learns-when-it-pays-to-deceive.html Hurwitz and Tshilidzi Marwala, also at Witwatersrand, have developed a virtual player that has taught itself to bluff at a card game called lerpa. Their artificial intelligence bot, named Aiden, is based on a neural network algorithm that usually forecasts stock market fluctuations. Crucially, Aiden was…

  • Legalise Poker!

    Sign the petition to ask No. 10 to allow Poker to be played in a regulated and safe environment in private members club, such as our favourite Gutshot Club in London. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Poker-UK/ Your vote counts!

  • Google Trends: what the world is searching for

    Earlier in May this year Google quietly lunched a new addition to their collection of online tools, which already include a word processor and a browsable maps of Mars, called “Google Trends”. “See what the world is searching for” they have it for it’s punch line so that’s exactly what I did. And awe the…

  • Poker Driving Artificial Intelligence Research

    Alberta team studies artificial intelligence with poker-playing computer… So, they finally understood Poker is not a game of chance but of skill, what’s new?