{"id":14769,"date":"2015-01-08T18:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T00:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14769"},"modified":"2015-01-08T18:32:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T00:32:46","slug":"this-robot-is-the-best-limit-texas-holdem-player-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14769","title":{"rendered":"This Robot Is the Best Limit Texas Hold&#8217;Em Player in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Poker being what it is, the robot, named <a href=\"http:\/\/poker.srv.ualberta.ca\/about\">Cepheus after a constellation in the northern hemisphere<\/a>, will lose if it&#8217;s dealt an inferior hand, but it will minimize its losses as best as is mathematically possible and will slowly but surely take your money by making the &#8220;perfect&#8221; decision in any given scenario. Heads-up limit Hold&#8217;Em, it can be said, has been &#8220;solved.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/this-robot-is-the-best-limit-texas-holdem-player-in-the-world\">This Robot Is the Best Limit Texas Hold&#8217;Em Player in the World | Motherboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And it was solved by computer scientists at the University of Alberta who don&#8217;t actually play the game. That\u2019s because solving the game is more of a math problem than anything else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This development is like when they discovered Basic Strategy for blackjack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poker being what it is, the robot, named Cepheus after a constellation in the northern hemisphere, will lose if it&#8217;s dealt an inferior hand, but it will minimize its losses as best as is mathematically possible and will slowly but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14769\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[180,1148,72],"class_list":["post-14769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-math","tag-probability","tag-problem-solved"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14771,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769\/revisions\/14771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}