In 2007, a crafty computer poker research group at the University of Alberta showed off its Polaris poker bot, a project that had been over 16 years in the making. It was a complex program run on an Apple MacBook Pro, but it only played heads-up limit hold-em.Demonstrations against players like Phil Laak and Ali Eslami in the first Man vs. Machine Poker Championship in 2007 led to a big splash the following year at the Gaming Life Expo, where the computer played against six pro limit players in ...