23/05/2023
One of the most important strategies in poker is the art of bluffing, in which a player makes or raises a bet without having the best hand, in order to fool an opponent into folding. "People often think about bluffing as being a psychological phenomenon," Sandholm said. But beyond psychology, "bluffing still emerges as a strategic phenomenon," he said.
Sandholm and his colleagues didn't pre-program Claudico's poker strategy. They wrote algorithms that automatically compute a strategy by trying to find the Nash equilibrium. This concept from game theory was developed by American mathematician John Nash, who was portrayed in the film "A Beautiful Mind." In a noncooperative game, players are said to be in Nash equilibrium if they are making the best decision possible, taking into account the decisions of the other players.
