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Researchers "Solve" Texas Hold'Em, Create Perfect Robotic Player
Jason Koebler writes The best limit Texas Hold'Em poker player in the world is a robot. Given enough hands, it will never, ever lose, regardless of what its opponent does or which cards it is dealt. Researchers at the University of Alberta essentially "brute forced" the game of limit poker, in which there are roughly 3 x 10^14 possible decisions. Cepheus runs through a massive table of all of these possible permutations of the game—the table itself is 11 terabytes of data—and decides what the best move is, regardless of opponent.
...they got banned by 6241 online casinos and bragging here is the only thing left?
There is another computer that triples the bet every time it loses and leaves when it wins and says something about knowing when to walk away.
And then there is the computer that deals the cards and takes 4% of the pot every round, muttering "House always wins".
The third computer that can beat it keeps giving it complimentary alcoholic beverages until it gets a buffer overrun.
The fourth computer doesn't "believe in no win situations" and reprograms the computer to lose, but then Spock finds out and he gets kicked out of the Academy.
Priest: "Universe from nothing, no laws of physics, sped up time"+ huge discrepancies. Creationism? No. Big Bang Theory
You've got to lookup when to hold 'em
Lookup when to fold 'em
Lookup when to walk away
Lookup when to run
You never lookup your money
When you're sittin' at the lookup table
There'll be time enough for lookups
When the dealin's done