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Poker provides an environment of great potential with well-defined rules for the research field of artificial intelligence. The popular card game provides incomplete information about the game state, non-deterministic outcome and stochastic elements where the outcome does not appear until thousands of hands have been played. These circumstances can be compared to making decisions in the real world and make the research interesting for other applications beyond poker. A major theme of this thesis is the development of an agent for Texas Hold’em Poker Sit and Go tournaments that plays skillful poker. For decision making, our approach is based on a recommender system. We mimic the behavior and strategies of a human poker player with an artificial intelligence agent. In various simulation setups we show that our approach is evaluated superior to simple poker opponents.

Building an agent for Texas Hold'em Poker based on a recomm...

Building an agent for Texas Hold'em Poker based on a recommender system

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