Poker has been studied academically since the founding of game theory and in fact may have even been the inspiration for the field: the only motivating problem described in John Nash's PhD thesis, which defined and proved existence of the central solution concept, was actually a three-player poker game. Such interest has not waned over time. Last year when a computer program developed at Carnegie Mellon University competed against the strongest human two-player no-limit Texas hold 'em players in the inaugural Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence Competition, thousands of poker fans followed with excitement. Earlier that year another monumental breakthrough was attained, as the two-player limit variation of Texas hold 'em (the smallest variant played competitively by humans) was "essentially weakly solved'' (i.e., an epsilon-Nash equilibrium was computed for such a small epsilon to be statistically indistinguishable from zero in a human lifetime) by researchers at the University of Alberta. This result was published in the journal Science. Poker, and particularly Texas hold 'em, is tremendously popular for humans, and online poker is a multi-billion dollar industry. Computer poker has proved to be one of the most visible applications of research in computational game theory.