Poker Theory and Analysis

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This course takes a broad-based look at poker theory and applications of poker analytics to investment management and trading. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu

Kevin Desmond


    • Jun 9, 2015 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 58m AVG DURATION
    • 8 EPISODES


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    Lecture 3: Basic Strategy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2015 71:45


    Position, pot odds, implied odd, fold equity, and semi-bluffing strategies are discussed in this lecture, and several examples are analyzed.

    Lecture 8: Decision Making

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2015 64:46


    In this session, guest Matt Hawrilenko discusses game theory, value betting and bluffing, how to maximize the value of the entire set of hands, and exploitive strategies.

    Lecture 7: Game Theory

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2015 64:13


    Guest Bill Chen discusses Cepheus, explains regret minimization, Counterfactual Regret, and improvements, and the extension of computer solutions to other games including big bet and multi-player games.

    Lecture 6: Poker Economics

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2015 80:08


    Guest Aaron Brown discusses the history of poker, its influence on futures trading in nineteenth century United States.

    Lecture 2: Analytical Techniques

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2015 68:28


    Guest Joel Fried demonstrates the tools of the PokerTracker software in this lecture.

    Lecture 5: Tournament Play

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2015 46:25


    In this session Kevin Desmond discusses the tournament life cycle, flop-turn-river play, poker psychology, bankroll management, and the class league results.

    Lecture 1: Introduction to Poker Theory

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2015 30:48


    An overview of the course requirements, expectations, software used for tournaments, advanced techniques, and some basics tools and concepts for the class are discussed in this lecture.

    Lecture 4: Preflop Analysis

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2015 43:39


    This lecture focuses on how to play the pre-flop as close to optimally as possible by analyzing several scenarios.

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