Advanced Poker Theory
Advanced Heads Up Mastery: Doug Polk unpacks heads up play step by step in his most advanced poker course to date. This course retails at $999. This course retails at $999. Learn more here in our detailed post on this course or head directly over to UpswingPoker.com. Poker is a popular card game that combines elements of chance and strategy. There are various styles of poker, all of which share an objective of presenting the least probable or highest-scoring hand. PIO solver is one of the best poker tools to analyze game theory optimal strategy in heads-up play and probably is the most advanced one, thus it just has to make this list. You can see what hands to bet or to check in any given situation, how frequently you should do that or even recommended sizings based on your set-up. As a follow-up to last month's list of top 10 classic poker books, this week we cover some of the better advanced strategy poker books that will help take your game to the next level. If you are playing live or online poker, these books will help you build a solid strategy and drastically improve the way your approach the game.
A Texas Hold'em game from a player's point of view. (Courtesy of Peter Hopper on Flickr. License CC BY-NC.)
Instructor(s)
Kevin Desmond
MIT Course Number
15.S50
As Taught In
January IAP 2015
Level
Graduate
Some Description | |
Instructor(s) | Prof. |
As Taught In | Spring 2002 |
Course Number | 2.24 |
Level | Undergraduate/Graduate |
Features | Lecture Notes, Student Work |
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This course takes a broad-based look at poker theory and applications of poker analytics to investment management and trading.
This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT in January. IAP provides members of the MIT community including students, faculty, staff, and alums with an opportunity to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of activities and topics that are often outside of the regular MIT curriculum.
Faculty Advisor: Paul Mende
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