


Michael Bowling’s team taught Cepheus by having it play itself, and the program learned from its mistakes, according to the team’s website. That would take a lifetime or two for you or me, but Cepheus is a computer program, set up by researchers at the University of Alberta. You may win a few hands, but in the end, you better know when to walk away.Ĭepheus has already played millions of hands of heads-up limit Texas hold ‘em, a poker game between two players involving two held cards and three shared. You wanna take on the card king? Have at it. Well, you can’t read Cepheus, and you can’t beat it. That’s the thing an opponent does that gives away the quality of cards he is holding.

Poker players like to read another player’s tell.
