Optimal Play

[BobboFitos]

imo you left off one of the best posters.. yourself (should be in <font color="red">red </font> )

[PinkSteel]

I'm guessing that by optimal game plan you mean one that is profitable not only independent of stakes, but independent of specific opponent knowledge as well.

I think Mike Caro has asserted generally that such an optimal strategy must exist; the question is whether it's knowable. Such a strategy almost certainly exists for chess as well, but it isn't yet fully known, and chess is open information and deterministic.

So the strategy for hold'em would wind up being not only probabalistic (in a given situation, different plays get made a certain % of the time) but immensely complex.

[tripp0807]

Pink Steel,

Thanks - I think that's precisely what I was looking for.