Poker News: They didn't blink. They didn't tell. Even after Polaris took the second round, the Unabomber and his accomplice stuck to their game. Finally, deep into the night, after four rounds of Texas hold 'em, Polaris folded once and for all. The game was over. The humans had beaten the machine. Just. Play online poker

Far away from the kitsch glamour of Las Vegas, with not a showgirl or a hustler in sight, two professional poker players from Los Angeles took on a computer program in a hotel in Vancouver on Monday and Tuesday. Billed as the "First Man-Machine Poker Championship", the event staged at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence offered prize money of $50,000 (£25,000) to the winner of four hands of poker. Read poker blogs

For Ali Eslami and Phil "the Unabomber" Laak - so named because he wears a hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses - the money was small change, but the stakes were high. Play route 66 poker

"I literally felt the same feeling that you would have if you beat 500 people in a poker tournament and won a million dollars," Laak said after the game, which ended to the sound of whoops and cheers from the watching crowd of hundreds as the humans vanquished the computer. "We won, not by a significant amount, and the bots are closing in." Play strip poker

Playing against the computer was more exhausting than any other game he had played, Eslami said. "I really am happy it's over. I'm surprised we won ... it's already so good it will be tough to beat in future." Play full tilt poker

Poker News Source: guardian