The Monash Bayesian poker project was started by Kevin Korb in 1993. Since then 5 honours students have worked on various aspects of the project and some of the work has been written up as research publications (see below for Honours projects and online versions of papers).
Our Bayesian poker player (BPP) was originally developed by Nathalie Jitnah to play 5-card stud poker, using Bayesian network technology. Most recently, BPP has been converted to play Texas Hold'em Poker, the main online form of poker, and re-written in python. BPP has been entered in the inaugural world automated poker playing competition at the main American Artificial Intelligence conference AAAI-2006, finishing 3rd and 4th (see link below). We have developed a simple GUI interface that allows people to play against BPP via the internet.
Play Against BPP (Version April 2007)
CSE1370/2370 Seminar (pdf) (3/8/06)
UAI 99 paper K.B. Korb, A.E. Nicholson and N. Jitnah (1999) Bayesian Poker. In Proc. of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 343-350, Stockholm, Sweden, August, 1999.
2006Draft Paper A.E. Nicholson,K.B. Korb and D. Boulton. Using Bayesian Networks to Play Texas Hold'em Poker.
Darren Boulton, 2002-03, ``Bayesian Poker Opponent Modelling'' (joint supervision with K. Korb).
Jason Carlton, 2000. ``Bayesian Poker'' (joint supervision with K. Korb).
Aidan Doyle, 1995.co-supervision with Dr. Lloyd Allison, ``WWW Interface for Bayesian Poker''.
Scott Thomson, 1994. Bayesian Poker.
Nathalie Jitnah, 1993. Bayesian Poker.