Matt Maroon: Why I Quit Playing Poker For A Living

Re:Matt Maroon: Why I Quit Playing Poker For A Living by Poleris on Tuesday December 04, 2007 @01:09AM (#85834)

Here's an honest question. Why isn't more research being done into solving Poker compared to the amount put into Go or Chess?

> It seems to me that it is an interesting question that combines elements of computation, AI, and psychology.

> One can see instant practical results by playing your bot for real money.

> Poker is a fun game. :)

Any answers would be appreciated, especially as I'm thinking about doing a PhD and am currently exploring open problem domains.

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Re:Matt Maroon: Why I Quit Playing Poker For A Living by aidanf on Tuesday December 04, 2007 @08:40AM (#85922)

There is quite a bit of research being done about poker in the last few years. In fact poker related research has got best paper awards at a couple of the major AI conferences in recent years.

Check out http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/. They're probably the leaders in this field.

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Re:Matt Maroon: Why I Quit Playing Poker For A Living by ntoshev on Tuesday December 04, 2007 @07:18AM (#85908)

Chess has been researched much, much more than Go.

In research, you are looking for problems that can be solved in isolation, not ones that combine many diverse topics.

Perhaps poker is not researched more because gambling is tainted negatively by the society.

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