Man has beaten machine after two days of intense poker rivalry at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver, Canada.

The $50,000 match, between top pros Phil "The Unabomber" Laak and Ali Eslami and Polaris, the reigning world champion computer poker program ended in victory for the humans after four cash game sessions of 500 $10/$20 Limit Texas Hold'em hands each.

The competition took the form of two duplicate matches. The same series of cards were dealt in two parallel man v machine matches, with Laak and Eslami playing the opposite hands in each game. At the end of the match, the total number of chips won or lost by each team was added together to determine the winning team.