Man vs Machine II – Polaris vs Online Poker's Best

How It Works

• The game for the event will be two-player Limit Texas Hold'em.
• A team of two humans will play against a team of two computer programs (both being copies of the Polaris poker technology).
• A match consists of teammates playing the same series of hands, but from opposite sides (one North, the other South) to reduce the element of luck to a minimum.
• No communication between teammates is permitted during play.
• All players (bot and human) will connect to an independent poker server run by Poker Academy, which will administer the parallel games.
• Each series of cards will be generated randomly, based on a combination of independent seeds provided by the human team, representatives of the bot team, the match arbiter, and the match administrators (no single entity determines the cards to be dealt).
• There will be four live matches consisting of 500 hands each, played over 4 days (one match per day).
• There will be two remote matches consisting of 500 hands played prior to the live event to give competitors a feel for the software.
• A winner is determined by adding the total winnings/loses of the two teamates. If a team's margin of victory is 25 small bets or less, the match is considered a draw.