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How are you so sure that those options are worthless?
It's obvious once you run enough cases and see they don't change EV by much.
As to the limp preflop... the almost perfect solution produced by Alberta team doesn't have limping in HU limit Holdem. There is even less incentive to limp in NLHE with deep stacks.
I mean, when you are far far away from NE it doesn't make sense to spend your time on those lines (unless your goal is different than simply producing the strongest poker playing entity). You need to know how to defend vs those plays but it's easier than having those in your arsenal as well.
Once you are close to NE maybe it's worth investigating but as it is it's just about making choices about where to spend your energy/computing power.
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I am one of the developers of Claudico and I know a lot about poker. I was SNE twice on PS and have played for 9 years.
Our 2014 agent Tartanian7 beat everyone with statistical significance in the computer poker competition, including teams that had programmers with expert poker knowledge. Claudico is way better than Tartanian7.
Nice to know, still my point about bad decisions stands.
Winning against other academic teams doesn't mean much
People who have the strongest AIs don't play in those and the strongest public AI won't come from academic world either. This has long tradition in programming as well: the strongest playing programs in various games never came from academia, the reasons I think are obvious.
What about addressing specific things: calculating rivers having 64 core machine for that and taking 30 seconds in there doesn't sound too convincing. Including options which can be safely discarded without much (or any) EV loss is there as well.
The impression about lack of knowledge about poker comes from interviews of the chief architect btw, not only the ones made on Twitch streams but also the ones published before and from one thread we had about it before in NVG (which ended once the most straightforward question: how exploitable is that AI was asked). I had the impression he is more about applying general techniques and seeing how they do in poker because the impression is he doesn't understand much about the game itself (as documented by many quotes here and conversations with Doug).
Last edited by punter11235; 05-03-2015 at 03:40 PM.