Could DeepMind try to conquer poker next?

Main programmer on AlphaGo published a paper on teaching a computer to play the casino favourite

What next for Google's DeepMind, now that the company has mastered the ancient board game of Go, beating the Korean champion Lee Se-Dol 4-1 this month?

A paper from two UCL researchers suggests one future project: playing poker. And unlike Go, victory in that field could probably fund itself - at least until humans stopped playing against the robot.