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In the most recent match up between man and machine, it was man that squeaked out a victory, though just barely. The competition was a highly anticipated poker match between a couple of poker professionals and a new computer program called Polaris.

As our own Zac Bissonnette discussed over the weekend, as computer programs get better at gaming applications, eventually this technology may get transferred to the stock market to form the "perfect trader." But the newest program put to the test this week was only narrowly edged out by its human competition.

Polaris was recently developed at the University of Alberta in Canada. The university also recently released a checkers program that cannot be beaten by a human (but can end in a draw if its human counterpart plays the perfect game), and decided it was time to put its Polaris poker program to the test against two professional Texas Hold'Em players.

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