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I've just made it through lessons 1-3, but that helped immensely--although I think I'll need to get further into it to come up with an algebraic solution even on the simple scenario (still unclear to me how to deal with bluff or even finite pot).

But that brings up my question: Once you actually know what you're doing, is the algebraic approach usually easier than analysis (differentiating for maxima and minima)? I still feel irresistably attracted to analytic solutions and am actually, after looking at the way you set it up, thinking I may be able to get a clean bluffing solution (for the "easy" problem) by differentiating for EV (I'll post it if it works out). I'm actually guessing that the indifference equations turn out to be equivalents of the various equations you get when you differentiate... (??)