Carnegie Mellon University is back to face the very best No Limit Hold’em Heads-Up players with a new and improved artificial intelligence called Libratus.

May 2015, four of the world’s brightest No-Limit Hold’em Heads-Up experts beat Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) artificial intelligence Claudico over 80,000 hands.

In the aftermath of the event, Sam Ganzfried, a member of the Claudico design team, predicted that they would lick their wounds, learn from the defeat and be back with a new program that would beat the pros within a year. That new program is called Libratus and the rematch dubbed Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping The Ante begins at Pittsburgh’s Rivers Casino Jan 11.

It’s not only the AI that has had a facelift. The quartet of human players changes with Doug Polk and Bjorn Li making way for Daniel McAuley and Jimmy Chou (not the shoe guy). Both Jason Les and Dong Kim remain from the original team, and their experience will prove vital in this second match.