Editing Computer poker player (section)

=== Computer Poker Research Group (University of Alberta, Canada) ===
Until 2019, a large amount of the research into computer poker players was being performed at the [[University of Alberta]] by the Computer Poker Research Group, led by Dr. Michael Bowling.  The group developed the agents ''Poki'', ''PsOpti'', ''Hyperborean'' and [[Polaris (poker bot)|Polaris]].  ''Poki'' has been licensed for the entertainment game ''STACKED'' featuring Canadian poker player [[Daniel Negreanu]].  ''PsOpti'' was available under the name "SparBot" in the poker training program "Poker Academy".  The series of ''Hyperborean'' programs have competed in the Annual Computer Poker Competition, most recently taking three gold medals out of six events in the 2012 competition.  The same line of research also produced [[Polaris (poker bot)|Polaris]], which played against human professionals in 2007 and 2008, and became the first computer poker program to win a meaningful poker competition.

In January 2015, an article in ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]''<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1126/science.1259433|title=Heads-up limit hold'em poker is solved|first1=Michael|last1=Bowling|first2=Neil|last2=Burch|first3=Michael|last3=Johanson|first4=Oskari|last4=Tammelin|pmid=25574016|volume=347|issue=6218|date=Jan 2015|journal=Science|pages=145–9|bibcode=2015Sci...347..145B|citeseerx=10.1.1.697.72|s2cid=3796371}}</ref> by Michael Bowling, Neil Burch, Michael Johanson, and Oskari Tammelin claimed that their poker bot [[Cepheus (poker bot)|Cepheus]] had "essentially weakly solved" the game of heads-up limit Texas hold 'em.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Game Theorists Crack Poker |journal=Nature |url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/game-theorists-crack-poker/ |author=Philip Ball |date=2015-01-08 |accessdate=2015-01-13 |doi=10.1038/nature.2015.16683 |s2cid=155710390 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/computer-conquers-texas-hold-em-canadian-researchers-say-1420743623 |title=Computer Conquers Texas Hold 'Em, Researchers Say |author=Robert Lee Hotz |date=2015-01-08 }}</ref><ref>{{cite podcast |work=Quirks & Quarks |title=Poker Computer Takes the Pot [audio interview] |url=http://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/quirks-quarks-for-jan-10-2015-1.2895561/poker-computer-takes-the-pot-1.2895568 |date=2015-01-10 |host=Bob McDonald}}</ref>