That's both an unfair slight to the ethics of the researchers involved, as well as inaccurate. They've published in advance their criteria for declaring a vict

That's both an unfair slight to the ethics of the researchers involved, as well as inaccurate. They've published in advance their criteria for declaring a victory vs a tie: http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/21215-poker-bot-doubles-lead-in-historic-match-against-humans http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/21215-poker-bot-doubles... which is: "If after 120,000 hands either Libratus or the humans are one standard deviation above break-even, they will have won the competition with “statistical significance.”" (I'm a professor at CMU, but I have nothing to do with this research or competition.)