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Pocket (I - Introduction)

This is how I baptized a very simplified way of a family game of poker I've designed in order to better understand this type of game. If anyone is interested, I hope you join me in this little adventure.

A Pocket is played with a deck of 10 cards numbered from 1 to 10. Each player receives one card face down and the highest card wins. (In this way the probability computations are simple and do not have to have experience in the game to understand what happens)

As in any game of this type players bet a certain amount of chips on top as many as they wish. The first to speak is the player to the left of the dealer who can check or bet any amount you wish. If you bet the next player can fold, take the bet or raise. Followed in that order until all players have folded or have seen the last bet. Of course if someone withdraws delivers the letters (not teach) and did not involve more than the game.

the end it will teach the letters in the first place that made the last bet. If the other players will not exceed without teaching them deliver the letters and if you go beyond the teaching in the order of play.
showing the highest card takes all the money wagered.

The first point to consider is the need for a blind or "face." That is, they dealt the cards each player adds a fixed amount to the pot. If there is initial blind invincible strategy would be to bet only when you get to 10 spend the rest of the games. If someone sees your bets win and do not risk other items. Of course this ruins the game for that reason in every game played something needed in advance. For our purposes we will say that you must pay a tab view.

Given that we are starting, will better to simplify the game for 2 players and start analyzing seemingly simple situations.


1 .- The light
Imagine you have a very bad letter with which we're pretty sure we're not going to win, 1 itself. If we know that we have missed the boat but we have the chance to bet and wait for the other to go stealing the pot.

2 .- The position.
position adds complexity to the game you have to play differently being in a posidción or other connection to the dealer. For example, imagine that we get a 10, we have what in slang is called "nuts", ie, a match the table. If we are the last to speak and the first pass or bet our response will bet or raise, respectively (because if the opponent accepts our bid will win unless we win more and the same.
But if we were in first place the situation is much more complex. You can bet to see if the opponent sees us or else it is also reasonable to spend waiting for the rival bet because it has a good move or steal the pot and then turn up.

3 .- How to bet? Again
has left a 10. The other player spoke first and gone, The face is ours but we want more keys so let's bet. The question is how much? If we say a very high it is more likely that the other player to crack and go, whereas if we say a minimum amount if the other player probably has a decent card to see it. Where is the best balance?

4 .- The style
opponent's style affects the proper way to play. If we face a player who consistently sees all odds, bluffing apostastando with 1 is useless. However, the same situation against a less aggressive player is only 50% of our bets and never raises the stakes is ultimately positive. If we go whenever we get a one lose one unit in each game. Instead if we bet 2 units always lose 50% of the time but we won 1 unit remaining 50% of the time that our rival cracks. Therefore each won two games and lose 1 chip 2 chips, ie chips lose 0.5 per game. Of course it is always better than spending


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Continuing my intention to play at Eleusis even without cards. It occurred to me, assuming that someone will have happened in advance, playing with paper and pencil Eleusis and at the same time be a pun.

propose a problem and I hope that readers are encouraged to be answering. I fear it will be easy to solve the puzzle but you never know.
The idea is to respond to proposals for post then if you are wrong I will put to the right of the right but when someone says I'll put some right and proceed to the next. No need to wait to correct the latter proposal (I have internet access 24 hours a day) to propose another one (if the proposal would think that is correct)

Here goes:





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# 2 THE

Time	OK	NOK
# 0	A		B E M					MAS TO BE
# 1		AJO AL ALA			LA LOMA LAKE		VA
# 3		ROOM # 3		ATLAS # 3	SUFFER

'm starting to think that the startup is too hard. For now note that is not LetterLeusis WordLeusis (in case it was not clear)
The flaw in the creation of the rule is that most words are incorrect. If no one matches today then I'll have a valid will do everything much easier.

22/07/2007: Jose Bravo! I have saved is now much more feasible to solve the problem. 24/07/2007
I do not think that the latest proposals would go very misguided and I certainly believe it right would be practically solve the problem and at this time.
26/07/2007: While I can not say the same about the game of empathy, Ostadar is undoubtedly the best player in Eleusis (and variations) I know. And I have no doubt that the pattern has, however, let us know.
26/07/2007: "AS" I have not considered because it was given before the adoption of "THE" and would not make sense as a continuation of this. Another proposed rule out everything after "SALA" but logically you can use it as a clue. Anyone who believes that knowing more before the rule can mean self-proclaimed prophet and if you understand correctly place the 5 following moves let you read the rule.
27/07/2007: The last 2 answers are also correct that of zavodosky most of Ostadar Segurola and more seeking to realize the rule. As it seems that it is clear you can communicate the rule.
01/08/2007: Partida closed! Jose has discovered the rule. Indeed remains to say how to follow in case there is no word (in Castilian) large enough (actually, eu Hayq clarify that part of the rule is that words must be valid words of Castilian). Verily how to proceed would be to say that there is no valid and then the next would be to correct any of a letter. But this is beyond the primary purpose of the contest. However, if you think about this part of the rule was certainly not yet discovered the only logic possible. Since returning back decreasing the number could lead to a dead end and no power or neither up nor down.

Thank you all for participating.

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time disconnected I have, I confess. Not that I have left the game in the background, it really is that I have a couple of months focused on one of them exclusively.

Now that computers and we win in checkers, reversi, wari, chess, backgammon, Renju, LoA ... man strangely hopeful in a game that might seem relatively easy for computers. I'm talking nothing more and nothing less than the poker, yes! that game that I had always despised by considering semi-trivial, with a terrible influence of chance and more psychological than anything else. I'm reading my

The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky and there really is some math and a lot of logic in this. The way to see the poker in a serious way is clear, eventually the luck will be balanced, as it takes 1000 rounds but if your opponent makes a mistake the scales fall from your side.

The grace of all this is that computers could easily be programmed to play perfectly if it was not because the opponent can change his style (becoming more aggressive or passive), forcing the computer to adjust his style to make a profit. But if the way in which the computer changes of style is predicted by the human latter change its style to optimize against the new robot style. So everything becomes a battle of styles that will have the opportunity to see very soon.

The computer side are those of the University of Alberta (yes, the people who played Dr Tinsley noses in women and those who beat me LoA) with its Polaris program, knowing you would say there is little hope for humanity . A represent us Phil Laak and Ali Eslami , highly technical professional players. Do 2 people? If even the comabte is one to one (heads up, in terms Pokeriana) the robot will be doubled played 500 hands against each of them so that the cards will go for the robot A, we will against against another human to robot B, and thus minimizing the chance.

variant of poker, the popular Texas Hold'em Limit and the date the 23 and 24 July.
I hope you have a good coverage of the event. I also leave the link on the official event page The First Man-Machine Poker Championship

not desire, but knowing these smart-ass in Alberta I am afraid that the computer will win. Fortunately we will always have the go, is not it?

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