CPRG

Welcome to the home page of the University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group. We are working on creating computer programs that play poker better than any human being, as a testbed for doing good science. There are many core artificial intelligence and computer science problems that need to be solved to make an excellent player, and games like poker are a fun and controllable way to examine these problems. A longer explanation of why we're looking at poker can be found in Darse Billing's M.Sc. dissertation (Billings, 1995).

For even more detailed information about the past progress, you can look at the details about the milestones we have achieved over the years and our published work.

Milestones

1997 Loki

(Papp, 1998)

1999 Poki

(Davidson, 2002)

2002 PsOpti/Sparbot

(Billings et al., IJCAI 2003)

2003 Vexbot

(Schauenberg, 2006)

2006 Hyperborean

(Zinkevich et al., NIPS 2007)

2007 Polaris

(Johanson, 2007)

2007 Hyperborean No-Limit

(Schnizlein, 2009)

2009 Hyperborean Ring

(Abou Risk, 2009)

2015 Cepheus

(Bowling et al., Science 2015)

2017 DeepStack

(Moravcik et al., Science 2017)

We've made good progress but there are lots of interesting problems left and research is ongoing! To see what we are currently up to, check out the latest news for the CPRG.

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