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Old 05-23-2007, 01:59 PM
Nsight7 Nsight7 is offline
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Default Re: Which poker variation is most exploitable by pure math strategy?

I want to add something to my statement above (and I am no longer free to edit my post apparently).

With regards to Chinese Poker, it is explotiable in the sense I can develop a strategy that is optimal, meaning that any deviation from my strategy results in a loss of expected value. That is it. My edge will always be small and variance will always be high, but mathematically an optimal solution does exist (that could also be derived and/or approximated closely) and mixing up play is totally irrelevant (because as I have stated there are no betting rounds and nothing you do will allow your opponent to gauge your hand particularly well). Such is NOT the case with other forms of poker even if one can have a high-expected-value/low-variance on average. However, mathematical exploitable != highest EV. In those cases a very good strategy could be guessed at, but it isn't mathematically soluble.
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