WSOPR

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World Series of Poker Robots (WSOPR), also known as the World Poker Robot Championship is among the first exibition matches between humans and pokerbots. It is the precursor of even more popular events like Man vs Machine Poker Championship.

The WSOPR have been held July 12-15, 2005. There appears to have been 6 bot contestants; and the winner was Hilton Givens with his bot PokerProbot, who additionally beat Poker Academy bot poki.

After the pure robot competition, Phil Laak also played against the winning robot (He won with aces over kings), as well as against poki, and won both matches.

For unknown reasons, the WSOPR homepage [1] appears to have become defunct in late 2005. A given alternate page [2] also appears to be defunct. One can still however find an archived version of these pages:

• Archived home page: [3]
• Archived press release: [4]
• Archived player list: [5]
• Archived alternate home page: [6]
• Archived alternate press release, with many dated internet news site links: [7]

Hotlink to promotional video: [8]

Some info can be found on the blog Wally The PokerBot, as well as in many poker and news sites that reflected the competition.

Robot participants

The list of participants is as follows:

• Competitor #1: Senor Fuego
• Competitor #2: Hilton Givens
• Competitor #3: Dr. Ben Lo
• Competitor #4: Yifei Du
• Competitor #5: Roger Gabriel
• Competitor #6: Brian Edwards

See also

• Comparison between WSOPR and PBWC

Links

• Poker Academy News (WSOPR home page)
• Wired, "Who Says Robots Can't Bluff?" [9]