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Poker is a game where you bet that your cards are better than those of your opponents. Winning in poker is a matter of extracting the most value from your winning hands and minimising losses when you have a losing hand \u2013 something known as MinMax. It is not always the best player that wins, however. Sometimes a player\u2019s tenacity and courage triumph over those with the best poker cards.<\/p>\n

Like chess, poker involves imperfect information: each player knows their own cards but not those of their opponents. This makes it harder to model computationally and is why the poker AI boom didn\u2019t happen until 2015, when computer scientists announced an algorithm that displayed essentially perfect play for two players in a limited version of the game with restricted bet sizes.<\/p>\n

Since then, there have been a spate of commercially available poker solvers and in the space of four years we\u2019ve had the first superhuman AI for multiplayer Texas Hold\u2019em. In addition to confirming some of the folk wisdom on optimal poker strategy, these AIs have also overturned many maxims that expert players had gotten wrong, such as that it is never correct to \u2018donk\u2019 (initiate the first bet in a betting round) if you have the best possible hand.<\/p>\n

In this episode Annie and Tyler explore how payoffs aren\u2019t always monetary, the benefits and costs of probabilistic thinking, the magic thinking behind why people buy fire insurance but usually don\u2019t get prenups, whether Trump has a tell, the number one trait of top poker players and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poker is a game where you bet that your cards are better than those of your opponents. Winning in poker is a matter of extracting the most value from your winning hands and minimising losses when you have a losing hand \u2013 something known as MinMax. It is not always the best player that wins, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Poker AI Boom: Revolutionizing the Game Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Explore the rise of AI in poker, revolutionizing strategies and gameplay. 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