Efforts to "solve" different poker variants have been ongoing for years, with heads-up, fixed-limit hold'em being the game researchers have focused on the most as they try to create computer-driven poker-playing programs that can provide human players a significant challenge.
We've been reporting on the quest to "solve" LHE for more than a decade here at PokerNews, dating back to Phil Laak taking on an early, computer-driven challenger Poker Probot in 2005. After that came the first "Man-Machine Poker Championship" that pitted a program built by the Universtiy of Alberta's Computer Poker Research Group against Laak and Ali Eslami in 2007.