NEW YORK -- Poker champion Phil Laak has a good chance of winning when he sits down this week to play 2,000 hands of Texas Hold'em -- against a computer. It may be the last chance he gets. Computers ...
For the last several years, the world’s best chess, checkers, backgammon, and go player has been a computer. And it will almost certainly stay that way forever. But what about poker? Those other games ...