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Scientific Research on Gambling


This is an article series I've written for TwoPlusTwo Magazine. The concept is to take some academic research that applies to poker, and explain the thrust of the paper in a way that can be understood by well-read poker players.

 

Commentary on "Abstraction Methods for Game Theoretic Poker"
Published in the June 2009 issue of the TwoPlusTwo Online Magazine.

Commentary on "Poker Superstars: Skill of Luck"
Published in the August 2009 issue of the TwoPlusTwo Online Magazine.

Commentary on "The Endgame in Poker"
Published in the October 2009 issue of the TwoPlusTwo Online Magazine.

Commentary on "Approximating Game-Theoretic Optimal Strategies for Full-Scale Poker"
Published in the December 2009 issue of the TwoPlusTwo Online Magazine.

Commentary on "Bayes' Bluff: Opponent Modeling in Poker"
Published in the February 2010 issue of the TwoPlusTwo Online Magazine.

Commentary on "Optimal Heads-up Preflop Hold'em"
Published in the April 2010 issue of the TwoPlusTwo Online Magazine.

Commentary on "On the Usefulness of Opponent Modeling: the Kuhn Poker case study"
Published in the June 2010 issue of the TwoPlusTwo Online Magazine.

Commentary on "Bayesian Poker"
Published in the August 2010 issue of the TwoPlusTwo Online Magazine.

Commentary on "Pattern Classification in No-Limit Poker: a Head-Start Evolutionary Approach"
Published in the October 2010 issue of the TwoPlusTwo Online Magazine.

Investigating "Texas Hold'em Heads up Poker"
Published in the November 2010 issue of the TwoPlusTwo Online Magazine.

Commentary on "A Memory-Based Approach to Two-Player Texas Hold'em"
Published in the January 2011 issue of the TwoPlusTwo Online Magazine.

Commentary on "Using Counterfactual Regret Minimization to Create Competitive Multiplayer Agents"
Published in the March 2011 issue of the TwoPlusTwo Online Magazine.

Commentary on "Computing an Approximate Jam/Fold Equilibrium for 3-player No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournaments"
Published in the May 2011 issue of the TwoPlusTwo Online Magazine.

Commentary on "A Near-Optimal Strategy for a Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold'em Poker Tournament"
Published in the July 2011 issue of the TwoPlusTwo Online Magazine.

Commentary on "Universal Statistical Properties of Poker Tournaments"
Published in the September 2011 issue of the TwoPlusTwo Online Magazine.