There is quite a bit of research being done about poker in the last few years. In fact poker related research has got best paper awards at a couple of the major

There is quite a bit of research being done about poker in the last few years. In fact poker related research has got best paper awards at a couple of the major AI conferences in recent years. Check out http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/ http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/. They're probably the leaders in this field.