Man vs Machine – Polaris vs Laak and Eslami

How It Works

• The game for the event will be two-player Limit Texas Hold'em.
• A team of two humans will play against a team of two computer programs (both being copies of the Polaris poker technology).
• Teammates will play the same series of hands, but from opposite sides (one North, the other South) to reduce the element of luck to a minimum.
• No communication between teammates is permitted during play.
• All players (bot and human) will connect to an independent poker server run by Poker Academy, which will administer the parallel games.
• Each series of cards will be generated randomly, based on a combination of independent seeds provided by the human team, representatives of the bot team, the match arbiter, and the match administrators (no single entity determines the cards to be dealt).
• There will be four duplicate sessions of 500 hands each, played over two days (two sessions per day).
• The human team will receive an additional $5,000 for each session that is won by more than +25 small bets (+0.05 sb/h).
• The human team will receive an additional $2,500 for each session that is won or lost by +25 small bets or less (a statistical tie).
• All hands played will be made publicly available after the completion of the event.