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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.
umm, no, you have never played poker before in your life. you play the people, not the cards. you rely on visual and verbal cues to guide you on when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. In fact, this robot would be very easy to beat because its moves would always be predictable. it will never bluff