Opponent Modelling and Search in Poker

نویسندگان

  • Terence Conrad Schauenberg
  • Jonathan Schaeffer
  • Duane Szafron
  • Michael Carbonaro
چکیده

Poker is a challenging domain that contains both elements of chance and imperfect information. Though progress has been made in the domain, there is still one major stumbling block on the way to creating a world-class calibre computer player. This is the task of learning how an opponent plays (i.e., opponent modelling) and subsequently coming up with a counter-strategy that can exploit that information. The work in this thesis explores this task. A program is implemented that models the opponent through game play and then plans an exploitive counter-strategy using expectimax search. This program is evaluated using two different heads-up limit poker variations: a small-scale variation called Leduc Hold’em, and a full-scale one called Texas Hold’em.

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تاریخ انتشار 2006