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Old 10-25-2005, 01:29 PM
AaronBrown AaronBrown is offline
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Default Re: Holdem Challenge

My algorithm was very simple. I dealt the three hands, then looked up in a table available at Wizard of Odds the chance of each one beating two randomly picked hands in hold'em. I bet on the one with the highest chance, dealt the board, and checked which hand won.

The problem, as I mentioned, is that the best hand against two random hands is not necessarily the best of the three for betting. An obvious example is when the best hand shares a card with another hand, then you're often better off going with the third hand, even if it's weaker on average.
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