Computer scientists working out of the University of Alberta are claiming to have created a computer program called Cepheus that is unbeatable playing Heads-Up Limit Hold’em

First there were the Texas Road Gamblers. Men who carried more weight in Smith & Wesson than coinage. Let’s choose a figurehead of that time: Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson.

Then there were the online grinders. Wizards of a virtual world who managed to play more poker hands in a day than Brunson played in decade. Let’s choose a figurehead of that time: Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom.

So what does the future hold?

According to the boffins at the University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group, they have created a computer program that has played a billion billion hands. That’s more hands that human beings have managed in the history of civilization. Let’s choose a figurehead of the future: Cepheus.

Doyle ‘Texas Dolly’ Brunson, Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom or Cepheus – if they squared of in pairs, who would come out victorious after a series of Heads-Up Limit Texas Hold’em games?

“Cepheus loses to no one over a long enough time. You just have to play enough hands so that luck goes away,” Neil Burch, a computer scientist involved in the project told The Guardian.