Darse Billings plays poker for a liv-ing. Just a few years ago, he was a computer science student at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Interested in games, he had chosen the development of a poker-playing computer program as his thesis topic. "I discovered that very little work had been done on computer poker despite the many potential benefits of that research," Billings says. Although he did not create a working program, he learned enough about the game along the way to begin playing professionally—which he has done since completing his thesis in 1995.
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