outbluff

Lengpudashi, which means "cold poker master" in Mandarin, is using a new artificial-intelligence technique to outbet and outbluff its opponents in a two-player version of Texas hold 'em.

Although the sheer depth of the global economic superpowers' pockets should spell success, many analysts' minds drifted back to September 1992, when sterling was effectively expelled from the ill-fated Exchange Rate Mechanism after speculators outbluffed the Conservative government.