Lee Davy continues his Pokertherapy series with a look at how the quality of our relationships can affect our poker game with help from If The Buddha Married author Charlotte Kasl.

When Libratus beat the humans, I imagined ’emotion’ was one of our primary leaks. We can tilt. The computer can’t. But if you pull this thread what does it reveal?

Imagine we have two poker players of equal technical ability locked in a battle over many months designed to reduce the element of luck as much as possible. What will be the defining factor in that match?

Emotion.