The 2006 AAAI Computer Poker Competition

• The team from the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada), consisting of Michael Bowling, Martin Zinkevich, Darse Billings, Nolan Bard, Morgan Kan, Michael Johanson, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer, Neil Burch, Carmelo Piccione, and Finnegan Southey, developed Hyperborean based on ideas from past work (Billings et al., 2003). Two different variants of Hyperborean competed in the two tournaments.