
Optimal Poker: How to Play, Basic Strategies & the Debates Going on in Texas Hold 'em
Game Theory
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The Evolution of Poker
A lot of games where a style persists for a long time convention becomes convention, mostly because people have been doing it for a while. When somebody breaks with that convention they can actually generate real disruption within the circles until such time as everybody else learns to do things the new and improved way. So what's happened here in poker is people have started to use a lot more percentage calculation and determining the amount of money they should bet based on the cards that they're holding. Once you get to that optimization you reach this Nash equilibrium now where you can expect people to be betting within a certain set of ranges. And when everybody is playing optimally the players who aren't are in a position to be
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