Paramount PicturesFor a few days, it looked like the humans had it figured out. Four poker pros facing off against the Libratus AI in a 20-day no-limit Texas Hold'em competition pulled back from an early $193,000 deficit with big wins on days four and six, bringing the deficit down to to $51,000, with one human, Dong King, up $33,000. "It took us a while to study and get an understanding of what was going on," one of the pros, Jason Les, wrote in an email. But then the bot started winning again and big.