DeepSeek V4.1 Flash wins AI poker tournament of 17 models

An author ran a Texas Hold'em tournament where 17 AI players—frontier LLMs, cheap reasoning models, decision models, local open-source models and script bots—played about 7,700 hands, ranked by big-blind win rates and Elo. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash came out on top.

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