Does a computer bluff well? Can you read a computer’s reaction to his/her/its cards?

These are a few of the questions that will be facing two poker professionals on Monday in Vancouver, British Columbia as they face a poker-playing computer in a showdown for $50,000.

Professional players Phil Laak, who recently won NBC’s Poker After Dark, and Ali Eslami, an elite ranked poker player each have the opportunity to win $25,000 if they win all four games against the super computer during the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence conference being held at Vancouver’s Hyatt Regency Hotel.

The computer, named “Polaris” by its creators from the University of Alberta, can more