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...Even those more circumspect about the machine’s prowess still respect it....
...Like most other games, poker is played by superhuman machines, so-called “solvers” — AI systems built using game theoretic maths....
...Chess epitomises planning ahead, backgammon adapting to randomness, poker hidden information and deception. Games are also, of course, an art form....
...These highly tuned machines make money by getting intelligent, ingenious people to compete fiercely to achieve the best financial results. If you seek deeper meaning, look elsewhere....
...Kirkland’s ruthless emphasis on profits and blockbuster pay packages spawned an internal culture that readers of Liar’s Poker might recognise....
...On Thursday, he achieved a draw in a war against Illumina, a company that makes machines to sequence the human genome....
...“These reformed tax rates will replace the existing regime under which casinos pay less tax on poker machines than hotels and clubs.”...
...He is a serial projector and would make a terrible poker player. Unfortunately an entire political party is now aping his psychology....
...You can let the machine bet for you....
...He learnt how to gamble by studying poker bots and “reading obscure machine-learning papers” and, to his credit, by spending time at the racetrack....
...Walsh made his fortune gambling in many forms, including horseracing, blackjack, poker . . . you name it, his syndicate bets on it....
...Backgammon was cool in the 1970s; poker grew popular in the 2000s; chess is having a moment now, also helped along by The Queen’s Gambit, a hit Netflix series....
...He then went back and continued playing poker with them, and encouraged everyone else to do the same. Whether or not Trump becomes the Republican nominee again (I doubt it), the problem remains....
...It was better than the stud arm that the NHS had provided her with a few months before, as it allowed her to use a rowing machine, one of the few forms of exercise she could do....
...Someone was just telling me before this event that they were told on their first day of work if they hadn’t read Liar’s Poker, they were fired. So, you know, it’s a book that obviously endures....
...‘Accepting a negative metric’ “Whenever someone innovates in business or in life,” argues the former poker player Caspar Berry, “they almost inevitably do so by accepting a negative metric that other people...
...Bini’s creation, a pink velvet- and leather-lined “vagina tunnel” that exits through the door of a washing machine, has led Delevingne to dub Bini her “Mad Hatter”....
...Then he was gone, headed to Las Vegas to play in the World Series of Poker, where he busted out on the first day....
...Algorithms have already proved their dominion over humans in sophisticated psychological games such as chess and poker....
...With the machines she and her nursery staff then refilled them with manure and good compost before topping them off with a deep layer of gravel....
...But the pay-off, an appointment as ambassador to France in 2013, was nixed due to his participation in a high-stake poker game. (Lasry disputes this.)...
...Elliot says he never played poker with the future prime minister....
...The online casinos might provide some buffer to earnings, but with regulatory scrutiny already intense, tact was required given the political risk of encouraging furloughed workers to feed virtual slot machines...
...A record number of people have been playing poker and digital slot machines on their phones while under coronavirus lockdown, forming habits that game developer Zynga thinks will lead to sustainable profits...
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