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Limits RegistryLibratus, developed by Noam Brown and Tuomas Sandholm at Carnegie Mellon University, beat four elite professional heads-up poker players (Dong Kim, Jason Les, Jimmy Chou, and Daniel McAulay) by a combined margin of over $1.7 million in chips across 120,000 hands played at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh in the 'Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence' competition. It was the first AI to beat top humans decisively at a game of imperfect information with this much strategic depth.
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Libratus, developed by Noam Brown and Tuomas Sandholm at Carnegie Mellon University, beat four elite professional heads-up poker players (Dong Kim, Jason Les, Jimmy Chou, and Daniel McAulay) by a combined margin of over $1.7 million in chips across 120,000 hands played at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh in the 'Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence' competition. It was the first AI to beat top humans decisively at a game of imperfect information with this much strategic depth.
Carnegie Mellon University's Libratus AI defeated four top human heads-up no-limit Texas hold'em specialists by a statistically significant margin over a 120,000-hand, 20-day match in January 2017.
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Limits Registry. LR-LIBRATUS-HEADS-UP-POKER. Libratus defeats top humans at heads-up no-limit poker. 2026.