Quantum Poker - the future of cards?

PLAYING poker makes your brain ache at the best of times.

You can really stretch the old grey matter if you are a number cruncher who looks at all the complex maths - including pot and implied odds - involved in either checking, raising or folding.

Yet some unversity boffin has now come up with a whole new world of problems by writing a paper on Quatum Poker - the way that the online game of the future could be played.

Don't ask me to explain this seriously complicated theory. I only just scrapped an O
Level in Maths at school and the only Quantum I've ever heard of was Quantum Leap, that fantasic US show about a time-travelling scientist.

But it's something to do with today's 'old' binary computers being replaced by superior Quantum computers in the future. If that happens then the online game could be changed beyond recognition, apparently.

Follow the link to read more - and leave a reply if you can explain it all to me in less than 80 words!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227081.300-quantum-poker-are-the-chips-down-or-not.html