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Johns Hopkins Poker Course
- MrXOR 6y agoAnother good course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-s50-poker-theory-and-analytics-january-iap-2015/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-s5...
- MrXOR 6y agoIf you are interested in the science of poker: Computer poker research group[1] of university of Alberta are working on creating AI that play poker better than human. [1] http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/index.html http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/index.html
- tialaramex 6y agoIs this group active? I'm aware of Cepheus (essentially a solution for perfect Limits Heads Up) and I see they did some further work in No Limit, but there isn't anything since a February 2018 publication. So either this work is dormant (seems plausible) or they are really under wraps on something, 'cos if you don't publish for over two years in academia you'd better have something amazing to show for it.
- onsen 6y agoThey went pro
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- ackbar03 6y agoCarnegie Mellon already did it quite a while ago to great results https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190711141343.htm#:~:text=The%20AI%2C%20called%20Pluribus%2C%20defeated,against%20five%20copies%20of%20Pluribus https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190711141343.h....
- MrXOR 6y agoThanks. I just reference this website for its useful resources about the theory of poker.
- slymon99 6y agoFb ai research has some people working on solvers that crush human opponents even multiway https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00164 https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00164
- dcl 6y agoI think poker is a great introduction to many really interesting and useful ideas. From basic maths to probability and statistics, simulation/programming, game theory, decision theory, portfolio management, all the way to cutting edge reinforcement learning or AI methods. Lots of deep ideas to explore once you've been introduced to them.
- HenryKissinger 6y ago> portfolio management ??
- nexuist 6y agoNot folding when everyone else has may give you a market advantage, similarly being the first to fold may ensure you come out of the round in the best position.
- dcl 6y agoPoker is a high variance game. Aside from trying to get your money in while you think you've got an edge, you need to manage your bankroll through long periods of bad luck - make sure you're able to keep playing tomorrow, even if things go really bad today.
- jacobwilliamroy 6y agoThe difference is that poker is a game but finance is real life: physical resources, actual human lives. To operate at the game level of abstraction is sociopathic.
- ufuft 6y agoIf you're a poker professional, the game of poker and your finances are very closely related.
- Traster 6y agoThere are plenty of poker players who play professionally and the bank roll management aspect of the game is an essential part of their job. Which is why at the highest level you'll find quite a complex ecosystem of players selling stakes in themselves to each other to lower the variance.
- HenryKissinger 6y agoWhat a coincidence! I've been looking for good resources to learn poker recently. Thanks OP.
- onsen 6y agoRunitonce is one of best training sites
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- jdkee 6y agoI read earlier today that “When you shuffle a single deck of cards, it is almost certain that that arrangement of cards has never before appeared and likely will never again.” 52!=8*10^67 arrangements.
- libraryofbabel 6y agoFor scale: that’s about one deck for every atom in our galaxy.
- Simon_says 6y ago> likely will never again That's a pessimistic view of the future.
- irthomasthomas 6y agoYes, as long as you give it a true shuffle, as a casino would. Casual lazy shuffling may produce duplicates.
- johannes1234321 6y agoWhile in a poker game you don't hand out all cards and the order in which a player gets their cards before a betting round (first two with texas hold'em) also doesn't matter. Takes unite a few arrangements out :)
- Bedon292 6y agoPoker has always fascinated me, and I would like to learn it more. I think I would be into it much more if online poker, for actual money, were legal in my state. I find that people, including me, play vastly differently if its all fake and you just get more free chips tomorrow. Its probably better for me that I can't, would be yet another thing to spend way to much time on.
- galvin 6y agoStakes are definitely needed to make things interesting. You could try setting up your own game with friends. I've avoided regular online play because it really is a rabbit hole! https://www.pokernow.club/ https://www.pokernow.club/
- eru 6y agoApropos stakes: Solo computer games are probably the lowest stake activity you could think of. But some games have 'perma death' and 'iron man' modes. The former means that you or your pawns etc can't come back after being killed off. The latter means that there's only ever a single save file for one playthrough, ie you can save-and-quit to take a break, but you can't load an early save game when something inevitably goes wrong. This kind of playstyle is common in rogue-like games. But can also be employed for strategy games like X-Com.
- tmsh 6y agoI was skeptical of MasterClass at first, but: https://www.masterclass.com/classes/daniel-negreanu-teaches-poker https://www.masterclass.com/classes/daniel-negreanu-teaches-... is good. There's a lot of modern strategy involved, specifically around playing probability ranges v. trying to place people on particular hands. For someone getting back into poker after a decade or so I thought it was pretty good.
- ackbar03 6y agoNegreanu is amazing. I'm no expert but I always thought he had one of the most solid, stable and rational plays.
- LittlePeter 6y agoHe is an entertainer and knows how to maximize value against amateurs, of which there are a lot in tournaments, hence where most of his winnings are from. In online short-handed (6 or less) cash poker against the online pros he is the "fish".
- madog 6y agoHe makes some incredible reads as well. Some great videos on YouTube if you search for "Negreanu reads" [1] 1: https://youtube.com/results?search_query=negreanu+reads https://youtube.com/results?search_query=negreanu+reads
- jonplackett 6y agoI’ve been really enjoying masterclass in general. I was half thinking it was just a terrible Facebook scam to start with, but they’ve got really good people. Ron Howard’s directing class is so interesting.
- bmurray7jhu 6y agoUnconventional intersession classes like this were one of the best parts of my undergraduate experience at Johns Hopkins.
- blackbear_ 6y agoAre there studies of blackjack which consider how the house plays against multiple players? Essentially, as long as you have a better hand than most other players at the table, you should have a higher chance of winning.
- klausjensen 6y agoHigher chance than the other players - yes. But that is irelevant, since you are playing against the house - not the other players.
- blackbear_ 6y agoSure, but if you're among the last ones to play your can use that information to decide whether to hit or stand. If you have the weakest hand, the house will play to beat _you_, so it should be better to risk and hit. But if another player has worse hand, the house will play to beat _them_. The house won't risk to go bust if they already beat half of the players, so you don't have to risk a hit if you're in the better half.
- Tenoke 6y agoThe house makes zero decisions, there is no information you can derive there.
- blackbear_ 6y agoAh you are right, I just read they stop playing after 17.
- bookofjoe 6y agoThis book is said to be quite good: https://www.amazon.com/Biggest-Bluff-Learned-Attention-Master/dp/052552262X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=konnikova+poker&qid=1602531589&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Biggest-Bluff-Learned-Attention-Maste...
- person_of_color 6y agoCan success in poker be extrapolated to success in betting/stock market gambling in general?