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Did you know that it is harder for a computer to play a poker game and win vs a human than a computer playing chess against a human?

Poker has much more life like probabilities to deal with such as bluffing, uncertainty of the opponents poker hand and poker hand strength. Granted chess has finite possibilities and outcomes, dealing with all these life like problems creates a much more difficult task for the good ole ‘puter.

Chess might be a better test of raw computer power,” said Christian Lebiere, a psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. But computer poker programs “are indeed more like human problem-solving.”

In real life, “we spend a whole lot more time managing uncertainty than doing deep sequential problem-solving” such as chess, said Michael Littman, a computer scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.

There is much more to consider when a poker computer plays a hand, like how much to bet, is the next card going to help their hand or make more outs for the other player, etc.

You may have heard of players trying to play poker online with “poker bots” (computers that play poker with a set of predefined rules for betting, raising, starting hands etc.) but for a computer to try and outplay a bluffer, or even put on a good bluff itself…it lacks all the emotions and life like challenges poker brings to the table.