A New Way to Make Computer Play Poker

Speaker: Fabien Benureau

Poker research has made great progress recently, and is constantly searching for smarter way to computers play poker. We will show an original approach to computer poker play, which, while still untested, is very promising. One major obstacle to strong computer poker play is the size of the game tree. We'll show how to reduce the size of the game tree, before creating strategies of varying level of aggressiveness