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Game Theorists Crack Poker
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Posted on 01/11/2015 1:25:30 PM PST by BenLurkin

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To: eastforker

That’s a terribly easy game, that’s why it’s not played anymore. 5/stud first card down, last 4 up. But you’re right, it’s a game of money played with cards. vs a game a cards played with money.

And I take exception to claiming to have beaten NLHE heads up. I doubt it could ever beat the top 2%.

And “counterfactual regret minimization” is the long name for a “Crazy Ivan”.

Now, get it working for PLO, NL 2-7 TDLB IMHO two of the hardest games to learn to play correctly — of the games that are occasionally spread.


21 posted on 01/11/2015 3:13:50 PM PST by Usagi_yo (Coming events caste their shadow beforehand.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

It does help to have the basic math, but screw 262TB. I watch the other players as much or more than the cards. Works for me.


22 posted on 01/11/2015 3:46:02 PM PST by Barkeep99
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To: BenLurkin

Computer programmers are really very smart. They encapsulate their intelligence in programs. When a computer “wins” a game, it’s actually the programmer who is winning, by delayed action, through a series of instructions that he/she wrote in the program.


23 posted on 01/11/2015 3:58:59 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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24 posted on 01/11/2015 4:20:14 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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