November 29, 2009
Game Theory for Poker Players - Can it Improve Your Game?
If you have had no formal training in game theory and learn best by watching videos. I recommend you take the time to go through and watch the FREE videos on basic game theory form Yale university.
Topics Covered1. Introduction: five first lessons
2. Putting yourselves into other people’s shoes
3. Iterative deletion and the median-voter theorem
4. Best responses in soccer and business partnerships
5. Nash equilibrium: bad fashion and bank runs
6. Nash equilibrium: dating and Cournot
7. Nash equilibrium: shopping, standing and voting on a line
8. Nash equilibrium: location, segregation and randomization
9. Mixed strategies in theory and tennis
10. Mixed strategies in baseball, dating and paying your taxes
11. Evolutionary stability: cooperation, mutation, and equilibrium
12. Evolutionary stability: social convention, aggression, and cycles
13. Sequential games: moral hazard, incentives, and hungry lions
14. Backward induction: commitment, spies, and first-mover advantages
15. Backward induction: chess, strategies, and credible threats
16. Backward induction: reputation and duels
17. Backward induction: ultimatums and bargaining
18. Imperfect information: information sets and sub-game perfection
19. Subgame perfect equilibrium: matchmaking and strategic investments
20. Subgame perfect equilibrium: wars of attrition
21. Repeated games: cooperation vs. the end game
22. Repeated games: cheating, punishment, and outsourcing
23. Asymmetric information: silence, signaling and suffering education
24. Asymmetric information: auctions and the winner’s curse
The videos are lengthy but are very practical in nature and I am sure they will help you think on a higher level.
Check out the Yale Game theory videos
6 Comments:
sanjuanworm posted on November 30, 2009 at 03:19 AM
uh, wtf do you want to 'mainly focus on 2-7 triple draw'?
OnTheCome posted on November 30, 2009 at 04:15 AM
Thanks for the comment sanjunworm. I am not going to get into an argument with you over semantics. I post things up here that are of interest to me and I think others would also be interested in. If I got a lot of negative feedback then I will stop posting and just keep a private journal of my musing.
castle77 posted on November 30, 2009 at 14:15 PM
thanks for the info, i have read a few GT books, and it has helped my game some. as for playing triple draw, if thats what makes you happy. i've been playing some other games just because the field seems softer, and its a bit more interesting after playing NL for a zillion hands. what made you pick triple draw?
sanjuanworm posted on November 30, 2009 at 15:47 PM
sorry, i didn't mean it that way. i just wondered why somebody just getting into poker would focus on triple draw in particular?
also, thanks for the links.
Blixx posted on November 30, 2009 at 16:35 PM
Stumbled upon this blog because of the game theory title, don't know much about triple draw but best of luck learning it. Thanks for the links, they look really interesting!
OnTheCome posted on December 01, 2009 at 00:31 AM
No problem sanjunworm I think I misinterpreted your statement / question. It is a very good question though that both you and castle have and in my next post I will do my best to answer this question.
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