Talk:Orac

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Some insight into the workings of ORAC, courtesy of Mike Caro: (Feel free to integrate this information in a more condensed form into the wiki)

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A Quick Bluff Is More Likely To Succeed Than A Hesitant One

Of course, there are exceptions, but on average...

If you bluff fairly quickly -- without pondering -- you'll succeed in stealing the pot more often than if you hesitate and seem unsure. I was able to further support this theory by programming my artificially intelligent Orac poker player in 1984. I learned while testing that opponents were much more likely to fold against fast bets than against pondered ones -- even against a computer!

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Has appeared in many TV segments and features including Hard Copy in 1998 and the TV version of Ripley's Believe It or Not? with his computer, Orac. This was a $250,000 challenge pitting the computer against Bob Stupak, owner of Vegas World. (Stupak won, but the computer is ready for its comeback against three world champions-most likely at a major casino within two years.)

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ORAC

(n) Mike Caro's poker-playing computer. The computer, and its program, made poker and computer history by being a participant in a special event at the 1983 World Series of Poker, a $500,000 freeze-out hold 'em challenge against a casino owner, an event that was featured on the television show Ripley's Believe It Or Not.

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In 1984 at the World Series of Poker he demonstrated Orac (Caro backwards), a poker-playing computer program that he had written. Orac was the world's first serious attempt at an AI poker player, and most poker professionals were surprised at how well it played.