During the “Gaming Life Expo” at the Las Vegas Rio hotel, two online poker professionals from Stoxpoker will attempt to beat a computer program developed by researchers from the University of Alberta in a Limit Hold’em tournament to be held between 4 and 6 July 2008.

Nick Grudzien, one of the two players that will attempt to beat the program, is a co-founder of the online poker training site Stoxpoker. The other player has not yet been chosen.

The researchers from the University of Alberta in Canada - creators of a computer program called Polaris - harbour the dream that one day a computer chip will become a grand champion!

According to the researchers, their program has the ability to adapt to its opponents’ play and exploit their weaknesses.