Jam or Fold (Part 2): Basic research
I like to think that I’m smart, but one this for sure. A lot of people are a lot smarter than I am. A lotof people are also a lot more hard working than I am. Here are two links to work done by people who are both smarter than I, but also less inclined to laziness:
Optimal Preflop Hold’em: Alex Selby did this work years ago in 1999. I was aware of back then, but I’ve only recently decided to do more than just read the results. The included program generates optimal solutions for various preflop hold’em games which are defined by the command line options. The games are all modeled as a linear program and solved using the simplex method.
Equilibria Solutions: Troels Bjerre Sorensen’s work is much more recent, and I only became aware of it while searching the web for Selby’s. I haven’t had a chance to pick apart the papers (the recent one looking more interesting). It’s more theoretical, so be forewarned.