Poker Arena: leaderboard

Seven evaluated API configurations play 50 independent 20-hand poker sessions. Score is the percentage of 1,000 hands won, not session victories; the paper specifies each model’s reasoning and action-token budgets.

Metric: Hand win rate (%). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2032. 7 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.4 (Medium)18#79 (GPT-5.4)
2DeepSeek V3.114.6#264
3Qwen 3 Max13#208
4Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) (Thinking)9.7#58 (Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview))
5Kimi K2 (Thinking)6.3#243 (Kimi K2)

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

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