How Artificial Intelligence Changed Poker ForeverJerry WeiBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJul 9Professional Poker player Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu recently discussed how artificial intelligence revolutionized Poker by giving people a way to learn Poker strategy without risking money.
He points out that more and more people are able to become professional-level players because artificial intelligence is able to help them figure out what to do in certain situations, whereas previously these strategies were learned through trial-and-error.
“The game of poker, the way it looked when I started playing in the late-’90s, is very different than what you see today.
The advance of AI and different software programs you can use to figure out stuff that, in the past, old-school gamblers kind of just figured out by trial and error.
Now there’s actual evidence of in this situation, this is what you should do.
That never was around before.
A lot of the top players at the very highest level use that to improve their game”Daniel “Kid Poker” NegreanuPoker.
A classic gambling game for anyone who’s anyone.
Specifically, I want to focus on Texas Hold ’Em, a variation where two face-down cards are dealt to each player and five community cards are dealt in three stages (three cards on the flop, one card on the turn, and one card on the river).
On every turn, each player has betting options to check, call, raise, or fold.
Turns happen before the flop is dealt and after each following deal.
At the end of all betting, the player with the best five-card hand using a combination of the community cards and their own two cards wins all of the money bet for that round.
There are two ways to win a hand in Texas Hold ‘Em:If all other players fold their hands, then the last player who hasn’t folded wins all of the money.
If there are at least two players still remaining after all betting ends, then the player with the better five-card hand wins all of the money (referred to as a showdown).
Because a player can win a hand by getting all other players to fold, Texas Hold ’Em provides an opportunity to win even if your hand is weak.
Consider the following strategies:If you have a bad hand (as in a completely trash hand that can’t beat anything), you can either fold and forfeit any opportunity to win the money or you can bluff by betting a large amount of money and make the other players think you have a very strong hand.
If you are able to convince the other players that your hand is very strong, you may be able to make them fold their hand.
Of course, if they also have a very strong hand then you’ve lost your money.
If you have a decent hand, you can also bet a large amount of money and bluff to protect your hand, but you also have to determine whether or not the other players have a worse hand that you could beat.
If so, you want to maximize the amount of money you make by betting enough so that the other players will call but not so much that they will fold.
If you have a strong hand (as in a super good hand that for sure won’t be beat), you should be betting betting enough so that the other players will call but not so much that they will fold.
In general, the strategy is based on what you think other players will do.
In this sense, Poker is a very psychological game (something that artificial intelligence doesn’t quite understand).
Artificial Intelligence.
The go-to topic when you meet someone new!.When you give machines a huge amount of data, they can find patterns within that data to learn how to solve problems.
The issue here is that they rely on mathematical solutions to problems.
Take a game like Chess.
Chess is very definitive.
Other than the first few moves, there is always a best move in Chess, which is why Chess AI’s are capable of obliterating even the best grandmasters.
In the case of Chess, machines will calculate the results of each move and pick the one that’s most likely to win.
However, the introduction of bluffing complicates things.
In Texas Hold ’Em, there is the psychological aspect of the game (even though there is still a mathematical aspect), which is hard for machines to learn.
Unlike in Chess where the best move can be determined given the current moves and the opponent’s likely moves, Texas Hold ’Em requires the occasional use of following what you feel (even if logic is saying no); for example, when another player betting big and you say “I don’t believe you”, sometimes calling is just as good as always folding if your mathematical probability of winning seems to be less than 50%.
So how do you change the AI to be able to adapt to each different player’s strategy?.Because understanding how your opponent plays is critical to being a good Poker player.
Some players are “tight” players who only play a hand if their original two-card hand is above-average and will only call if they have a very strong hand.
Other players are “loose” players who will play any hand and will often call with only decent hands (e.
g.
Daniel Negreanu).
The key is to break up the game into smaller parts and adjust the strategy as the game progresses.
The AI can thus use machine learning to find weaknesses in its opponent’s strategy and exploit them.
There’s also the problem where you don’t know your opponent’s hand.
In Chess, both players know the exact state of the board at all times.
In Poker, neither player ever knows the exact state because there are two concealed cards.
This makes it hard for anyone to predict the final outcome of the game.
It’s also hard to factor in luck, because Poker truly is a game of chance.
You can start with the best hand (pair of Ace’s), but you’d be shaking if the five community cards were a 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10 of the same suit.
While there’s no specific way to account for this (artificial intelligence that plays Poker will always be an approximate solution), researchers try to address this issue by making the game and abstraction where similar hands are grouped together.
This makes it slightly easier for the AI to consider such a large number of possible hands that the other players could have.
Current state of Poker and artificial intelligence.
Current artificial intelligence is actually already able to beat professional poker players.
It’s also becoming more common to consult with artificial intelligence in terms of strategy.
This goes back to what Daniel Negreanu was saying — more and more people are able to use artificial intelligence to improve their strategies than ever before.
While old-school Poker players would learn by losing their money, contemporary players learn by playing against their machines.
This has huge impacts on the Poker world; the 2019 World Series of Poker had 8 thousand entrants, more than ever before.
It won’t be long until an artificial intelligence wins the World Series of Poker…Some other resources that could be interesting:Daniel Negreanu’s WikipediaSome more information on Texas Hold ‘EmArtificial intelligence is better than professional poker players.. More details