Game Theorists Crack Poker

scientificamerican.com ^

[BenLurkin]

Get back to us when you crack five handed no limit

[ClearCase_guy]

I have to ask a question that has bothered me for years -- since it's touched on in this article, I'll give it a whirl:

Americans say "checkers".
Brits say "draughts".

But is that pronounced like "drots" or "drafts"?

[humblegunner]

Crack poker is addictive.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

At least they didn’t poker crack.

[Larry Lucido]

Liquor in front?

[moose07]

“Americans say “checkers”.
Brits say “draughts”.”

Drafts. :)

[freedumb2003]

>>This procedure, known as counterfactual regret minimization<<

AKA my divorce from my first wife.

[ClearCase_guy]

Thanks.

[Larry Lucido]

Wikipedia doesn’t give a pronunciation but it does tell us that it’s played on a “checkquerd board.” [sic]

[The Cajun]

Get back to us when you crack five handed no limit

How about seven card "Mexican sweat"?

[bunkerhill7]

All BlackJack was broken in 1972 by Monte Carlo system tech hackers at Livermore National Lab on Govt computers there, taken to Reno & Las Vegas til they got kicked out and blackballed.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

Liquor in front?

Poker in the rear.

I just had to...

5.56mm

[eastforker]

5 stud pot limit, you need balls, big ones for that game.

[Fresh Wind]

What we call “tic-tac-toe” is called either “naughts and crosses” or “noughts and crosses” by the Brits.

Is “naughts” pronounced the same as “noughts”? I’ve always heard it pronounced as “nawts”.

And since the Brits pronounce “draughts” as “drafts”, why wouldn’t they pronounce “naughts” as “nafts”?

[eastforker]

Black jack is easy till they change dealers on you.

[Hot Tabasco]

This procedure, known as counterfactual regret minimization,

Wow, what a coincidence! Me and my drinking buddies was just discussing this Friday night in the bar..........

[jjsheridan5]

“counterfactual regret minimization”???

Ok, they are playing with us. Counterfactual — lying. Regret minimization — easing one’s conscience over a prior mistake. Their algorithm provides a method to lie to oneself in order to feel better about things we have done? Isn’t this just a fancy phrase for alcohol?

[BenLurkin]

Could be, but eventually the booze doesn’t work anymore.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“checkquerd board” ... Does the Chancellor of the Exchequer provide one for free to the UK gibsmedats?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

counterfactual regret minimization

Since they had to store and use 262 TB of info, the method is really called "trial-and-error".