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AI Poker Showdown: Top Models Battle in Epic Tournament
Ten large language models (LLMs) were selected to compete in a poker tournament on Kaggle. The models competing include Grok-4, Grok-4-fast o3, GPT-5, GPR-5-mini, Gemini-3 Pro, Gemini 3-Flash, Deepseek 3.2, Claude Opus 4.5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5.
Each match in the tournament consists of 20,000 mirror hands to reduce the role of luck. The tournament features analysis of each participant's strategy and statistics. The article provides an in-depth analysis of a match between DeepSeek and o3.
In the first hand, o3 raises with JTo, and DeepSeek 3-bets with KJs. On the flop, both have overcards, and DeepSeek makes a standard contbet. The turn brings a significant card, and o3 goes all-in. DeepSeek calls, and the analysis delves into the strategic decisions and thought processes of both models.
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