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by Brian Pempus | Published: Sep 22, '15

Name: Jason Les Age: 29 From: Costa Mesa, CA Years Playing Poker: About 10 Lifetime Tournament Earnings: $756,476 Top Poker Accomplishment: 5th in 2014 $100,000 No-Limit Hold’em Alpha8 Las Vegas for $431,640 Twitter: @heyitscheet High-stakes poker pro Jason Les is widely regarded as one of the top heads-up no-limit hold’em players in the world, and […]

by Brian Pempus | Published: Jul 28, '15

High-stakes poker pro Jason Les is a cash game star, but he just recently had his breakout year at the World Series of Poker. Les final tabled two events this summer, recording a runner-up finish in the $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout and a third place in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em Championship. His deep runs this […]

by Brian Pempus | Published: Jan 31, '17

Monday was another losing day for the human team, but the bleeding was finally stopped. After the completion of the 120,000 hands against Carnegie Mellon University’s poker machine Libratus, the poker pro team was down 1,776,250 chips. The chips have no cash value, but the poker pros are splitting a $200,000 purse for a grueling […]

by Brian Pempus | Published: Jan 30, '17

The poker playing supercomputer Libratus still had 4,200 hands left to play against its human opponents on Monday, but with a lead of more than 1.5 million chips the “Brains vs. AI” contest had for quite some time been virtually over. The deficit equates to about 15,000 big blinds, or 75 buy-ins. Every hand of […]

by Brian Pempus | Published: Jan 26, '17

A team of world-class poker pros was losing by nearly by one million chips to a poker-playing machine at a Pittsburgh casino on Thursday. That’s about 10,000 big blinds. Every hand begins with each player having 20,000 in chips. The blinds are 50-100 with no ante. The group of heads-up no-limit specialists battling Carnegie Mellon […]

by Brian Pempus | Published: Jan 24, '17

The human team won nearly 100,000 chips on Monday to trim their losses against the world-class poker bot Libratus to about 7,000 big blinds. At the start of action Tuesday, poker pro Dong Kim was the only one of the four with a lead against the machine. Jason Les was losing the most with a […]

by Brian Pempus | Published: Jan 23, '17

The 2017 rendition of Carnegie Mellon University’s poker pro vs. poker bot contest was half-way over as of Monday morning, and the human team was stuck in its deepest hole yet. About 64,000 hands of the 120,000 scheduled had been played, and the poker pro team of Jason Les, Dong Kim, Jimmy Chou and Daniel […]

by Brian Pempus | Published: Jan 17, '17

On Monday, a group of four world-class poker pros cut their deficit by about two-thirds to the poker-playing bot Libratus that was developed by Carnegie Mellon University. Entering Tuesday’s matches, they trailed by 50,500 after the completion of about 28,000 hands. That’s nearly a quarter of the total hands scheduled for the 20-day contest ending […]

by Brian Pempus | Published: Jan 16, '17

The humans held steady over the weekend, but still trail the poker-playing machine Libratus. The 20-day contest at Rivers Casino Pittsburgh features Jason “PremiumWhey” Les, Dong “Donger Kim” Kim, Daniel “Dougiedan678” McAulay and Jimmy “ForTheSwaRMm” Chou each playing heads-up matches versus Carnegie Mellon University’s world-class AI. Through Sunday, about 23,000 of the scheduled 120,000 had […]

by Brian Pempus | Published: Jan 12, '17

Round 1 goes to the machine. On Wednesday at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, four elite heads-up no-limit poker pros began the latest man vs. machine poker match against Carnegie Mellon University’s world-class bot. Before it was Claudico, this time around it’s Libratus. The poker pros played a combined 2,800 hands (of the scheduled 120,000) […]