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Poker Theory and Analysis

Author: Kevin Desmond

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This course takes a broad-based look at poker theory and applications of poker analytics to investment management and trading.

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Lecture 3: Basic Strategy

Lecture 3: Basic Strategy

2015-06-1001:11:45

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

Lecture 8: Decision Making

2015-06-0101:04:46

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

Lecture 7: Game Theory

2015-06-0101:04:13

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

Lecture 6: Poker Economics

2015-06-0101:20:08

Guest Aaron Brown discusses the history of poker, its influence on futures trading in nineteenth century United States.
Guest Joel Fried demonstrates the tools of the PokerTracker software in this lecture.
In this session Kevin Desmond discusses the tournament life cycle, flop-turn-river play, poker psychology, bankroll management, and the class league results.
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.
This lecture focuses on how to play the pre-flop as close to optimally as possible by analyzing several scenarios.
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