The most popular variant of poker today is Texas hold'em. Poker is a family of games that exhibit imperfect information, where players do not have full knowledge of past events. 'Poker has been a challenge problem for artificial intelligence going back over 40 years, and until now, heads-up limit Texas hold'em poker was unsolved,' says Bowling, lead author and professor in the Faculty of Science whose findings were published January 9 in Science.
