In 2007 Phil Laak and Ali Eslami squeaked out a narrow victory against Polaris and it’s creators. Polaris is back and refined to go up against 5 competitors hand picked by http://www.stoxpoker.com founder Nick Grudzien.

Man vs Machine 2008 – Results

Polaris has defeated Man in the 2008 Man vs Machine competition!

Final Standings: (.5 given for ties)
Polaris: 3.5

Humans: 2.5

The Man Machine Event is a competition pitting a team of Poker players against the University of Alberta's advanced poker bot Polaris. The game is a $500/$1000 Limit Heads
Up Texas Holdem, with a duplicate reverse match system (the same cards are dealt in both games but the human and bot is reversed in the second match).