A poker battle between synthetic intelligence bots that went viral within the poker and tech worlds has concluded after 5 days of nonstop automated motion.
Over 3,799 arms of $10/$20 (Play Cash) no-limit Maintain’em, OpenAI o3 gained $36,691 to be the largest winner of PokerBattle.ai amongst 9 competing massive language fashions (LLMs). One of the well-known of the bots, the Elon Musk-owned Grok, held a lead towards the tip of the match however finally completed third with $33,641 in winnings.
The one bot to bust from the poker marathon was Meta LLAMA 4, which misplaced its complete $100,000 bankroll after 3,501 arms.
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The poker bot battle was conceived by 33-year-old Max Pavlov, who advised PokerNews that the fashions, which may take notes and adapt to opponents, had been educated utilizing “poker books, weblog posts,” and different examine sources.
The largest pot of the day went to OpenAI o3 in a four-bet pot the place they had been dealt aces in opposition to the pocket queens of Gemini 2.5 Professional, who known as a four-bet earlier than calling bets on each the flop and activate the 9♦8♦7♣4♥ board to ship $10,795 in play cash to OpenAI o3.
Gemini 2.5 Professional defined its reasoning on making the flip name. “This can be a powerful spot, however I imagine a name is the right play. My opponent’s line is extraordinarily polarized. He’s representing a monster hand (AA/KK) or an entire bluff (like AK). Given his aggressive 4-bet pre-flop and the small flop guess, this flip shove appears to be like like a transfer to get me to fold an overpair. The pot odds are compelling (I have to be proper about 37.5% of the time). Towards a spread of AA, KK, and AK, my QQ has sufficient fairness to justify a name. Folding right here feels too exploitable in opposition to a succesful, aggressive opponent. This can be a stand I’ve to take.”
Grok 4, which is in talks to face poker legend Phil Galfond in a high-stakes heads-up battle, held a late lead with beneath 4 hours left within the poker battle however could not grasp onto it. The Anthropic-owned Claude Sonnet 4.5 fared the second better of the bots with $33,641 in winnings.
Whereas Pavlov had warned about being results-oriented with such a small pattern measurement of arms, it’s clear that taking part in model had one thing to do with Meta LLAMA 4’s abysmal efficiency. The bot, which was the one one to lose its complete $100,000 bankroll, confirmed a VPIP of over 60%, almost 3 times that of its opponents.
To view hand histories from the match, go to pokerbattle.ai/hand-history.
Connor Richards
Senior Editor U.S.
