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Artificial intelligence and gambling, not just online

Date: 05:16 AM EST - Feb,28 2021
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Ever wondered who, or what, you're playing against when you gamble online? Well, provided that you are gambling in a legal, AAMS affiliated casino you are playing computer software. This software is the work of highly specialized software programmers, so a card that we are dealt in poker, is not a real card but an algorithm. The algorithms designed for online gambling sites ensure random results, re-producing the element of luck or chance. Players who gamble in the best European and Italian online casinos every day trust this software. Sometimes they take the software on and challenge the programme one on one, at other times the software is simply a link between two remote players, challenging each other.

But what happens when Man meets Machine in a game of online poker? Can human intelligence triumph over artificial intelligence? What happens when artificial intelligence is pitted against the skill of a poker professional?

Poker is different when compared to many of the online gambling games in that if falls into the category of a Skill Game. A poker player's performance is not based simply on chance or luck, but on their skill and abilities. So, what happens if you compare artificial intelligence with the best poker players in the world?

An experiment at Rivers Casino in Pittsburg in the United States of America, answered this question when A.I software took part the Texas Hold'em Tornament against four poker pro's and came out the winner!

A.I. vs Man in online and live gambling

Let's find out what happened. The competition was Live, not online, and played between human competitors and a piece of artificial intelligence called Libratus. Libratus was created at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg by Tuomas Sandholm, a professor of computer science and a PhD at Noam Brown. The tournament lasted for 20 days and all players had a budget of $20,000. Libratus eventually came out the winner with a whopping $1.7 million in winnings, out of a total of $2 million played. This result is mathematically relevant and eliminates the randomness factor.

Libratus was not the first victory and over the decades there have been many challenges between Man and Machine. One of the most famous battles was between a computer programme called Deep Blue and reigning World Chess Champion, Russian Garry Kasparov. The tournament took place in Philadelphia in 1996 and was won by the computer. However, in subsequent matches the results were different, in fact three matches were won by Kasparov and two were drawn, so in that case the Human emerged victorious.

The prospect of challenging artificial intelligence is understandably intimidating, however it is important to remember that these programmes are not designed to win, but to be correct, thanks to the RNG (Random Number Generator).

The right software in online gambling

In every game we play through online gambling sites, the Random Number Generator (RNG) determines random results. It is worth noting that this software is also created to ensure a return to the dealership and this is where the concept of Payout, the percentage of winnings that goes to the player, comes in to consideration. The slot machines on legal, AAMS regulated casino sites in Italy have a Payout that must exceed 90%. This is reassuring when deciding to take on machines because we know that within the average of the total of games, 90% is back in the pockets of the player.

In the age old competition between A.I and Humans, the type of game played must also be considered. For example, there is a fundamental difference between chess and poker. Chess is a purely strategic game based on the same information at the start of each new match. There might be any number of possible moves, but there is no hidden or random information. Poker is completely different in that cards are distributed to each player at random with no possible way of determining which cards have been dealt or discovering the other players hands. Unlike chess, poker is therefore not mathematically predictable.


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