Luke Geel, a US Air Force AI engineer and avid poker player, has managed to get his homemade 'AI tells detector’ onto ESPN’s WSOP broadcasts.
According to his column on PokerOrg, ESPN producers reached out to trial his tool, which analyzes player footage for tells after they’ve busted out of the WSOP Main Event.
The process isn’t exactly instant: “It would then take around 8-9 hours to run the footage through the tool, clean and prep the data, and send it back to them so they could edit it and get it ready for the broadcast.”
Geel’s invention, which compares physical and verbal behavior with hand strength, has now gone from personal experiment to TV tech. As he writes, “It’s been amazing to see it go from this very personal project to something featured on ESPN. I was even invited to go on NBC News to talk about it.”
For poker content creators, Geel has something new in the works—a free tool to help make their lives a little easier. Keep an eye out for more AI at the table.
