Pokerbots 2026
Won 1st place ($10k) out of 80 teams in the annual MIT Poker AI Tournament. Used VR-MCCFR+ to approximate nash equilibrium (with extra exploitative refinements) of the variant. Had full training, evaluation, and visualization infrastructure with heavy optimizations. Our final strategy was trained for 3 trillion hands over 5 days on 128 cores with a final winrate of 96% (half the losses as 2nd place).