http://www.twitch.tv/claudico_extra

Sam I have a question for you, I am about halfway through the paper you posted. Very interesting and well written.

When Claudico tanks on the river, Is this your endgame solver recalculating the decision?

What sets Claudico apart it seems is the bots ability to adjust its play on the fly via the endgame solver and also you say it has finer grained abstractions than other bots already because rather than assume uniform random distributions it is breaking down hand ranges as it plays reading betsizes etc. My question then is would Claudico be less effective on a slower computer, say a normal laptop. Does it need a bunch of cores to use the endgame solver?

Not gonna comment on the approach until after the competition concludes.

If Bjorn beats Doug vs. Claudico.......WE NEED A CHALLENGE TO SET THINGS STRAIGHT because it would put the assertion that Doug is the world's best HUNL player in jeopardy. No?

No.

i vote yes.
bjorn is clearly making an aggressive move towards doug.

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Quoting this so there are three of them in a row.

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Poker is a perfect recall game and that you might use imperfect recall abstraction to approximation NE for that doesn't matter. As long as you can play the game you can calculate max exploit. Just travel the tree in depth first fashion, go to every leaf (you can do that if you can play the game), calculate stuff there (pot equity vs whole range), go back to root (while making calcs for both max exploit and ev), profit.
It may take a while for a whole game but it will be relatively fast for a flop. If the abstraction is so huge it won't be fast on the flop (like you know, you assume every size is possible) then cut the betting abstraction to like 3 sizes (for max exploit not for the bot) and calculate this way (so max exploit assuming that max exploit can use only 3 sizes).
The fact that you play flops/turns instantly suggest you have that stored. If that's the case then it really isn't a big computational challenge to do so. You can even easily split it to as many cores as you want.

By "you" I mean the team and by the "author" I referred to him (as he appears to be the main man behind the project) because he is the one which appears to be someone without much knowledge specifically about poker and making big claims about the bot.

Doug said he was getting to start sitting Jason on his PS tables after this was finished..

Who is jason on pokersrars??

megabanny

There was a discussion about this a few days ago. Its most likely PremiumWhey

+1
This may never get old.

I have been very impressed with Bjorn's style of play which he stated in stream was fashioned to be low variance but very exploitative of the bot. Certainly that has proven to be the case.

Doug may not be using his "A" game knowing he is on stream. I suspect that they will not play each other knowing that there are so many easier dollars to be made playing others.

the stream was fun to watch the first few days as they were working things out, it's a bit dull now

Has premiumwhey been talking ****? Cheet's post history is 100% insecure hatred.

Also why would you name yourself premiumwhey when you have the build of a 70 year old man while being skinny fat

+1

The world is full of haters, some with justification and most without.
Well played.

https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/W...File/7185/6475

Found some interesting stuff on how this bot is interpreting and bucketing bet sizes from villian.

they're using:
If I'm reading this right, x is the bet size of villian and A and B are the different bet sizes it will interpret it as (say check, halfpot, pot, overbet, 5x jam or whatever you guess they're using)

send it to the brains in the SMP forum and let them find the best bet sizes for value/bluffs.

"brains of the SMP forum" LOL i think you're going to be disappointed

Wow, the Professor lying in an interview right in front of Jason saying the match is "even" and that Claudico in in "fourth place." Huh?

It isn't a race with five contestants, it is a match between humans and Claudico with MIRRORED hands making the significant figure the difference in winnings between players and computer. How they rank in order is less than irrelevant it is misleading.

The Prof's ego got in the way of being honest. Good lesson for everyone not to believe everything you read/hear in the media.

I realize alot of work has gone into this project but wow. Just wow.

The Professor sounds more and more like someone who has gone all-in with everything he owns on a bet and refusing to accept defeat.

Wow.