f) unlimited bankroll
Andy Beal High Stakes Heads-Up Limit Hold' Em strategy
Step 1. Play nearly every hands
Raise (most of the time) every pot he enters
Step 2. Check-call all the way down to the river with any A-high hand
8-bets the turn with two pair
Step 3. Obsession with preventing tells
Why is Andy Beal so good?
a) Obsession
b) Specialization
c) Mathematical approach
d) High stakes
e) Ultra-aggressive
f) Impossible to read
Polaris's Strategies:
Polaris have a total of 5 different strategies.
The Nash Equilibrium plus 4 other to use against different types of opponents. Polaris identifies which common poker strategy a human is using and switches its own strategy to counter.
1- The first approach is to approximate a Nash equilibrium strategy which is robust against any opponent.
2- The second approach is to find an exploitive counter-strategy to an opponent. We will show that these counter-strategies are brittle: they can lose to arbitrary other opponents.
3- The third approach is a compromise of the first two, to find robust counter-strategies.
4- The four approach is to combine several of these agents into a team, and learn during a game which to use.
Why is Polaris so good?
a) Adaptation. Polaris doesn't have a "best way" to play; it has a "best way" to adapt.
b) Specialization
c) No emotion
d) Aggression
Texas Hold ‘Em Heads Up Poker "The Brain"
strategy
Pre-flop
Hyper-LAG / maniac
+ Raise almost every time from the
Button
+ Raise called button from over
75% of the time from the BB.
...
Sometime 3-bet weak hands like T5off (negligible)
... Occasionally fold on the Button or when raised in
the BB (negligible)
- Fold more hands
from the SB on most streets than from the BB
Flop
Very
LAG
+ Routinely raise with middle pair
and a weak kicker
+ Call most of the
time a check-raise+ Rarely 3-bet the flop
with weak overcard, no straight, flush or backdoor possibilities
+ Often fold to a bet if a high card comes on the
flop
+ But he will bet the high card on
the flop
+ Most likely to fold on the
flop
Turn
Tightens up
+
Check-call with middle pair and weak kicker
+ Check the turn most of the time
River
+
Call with a piece of the board
+ Call
down with Ace high unless the board is scary
+ Likely to call with King high
+ Sometimes call down with weaker hands (J high) on a
bimodal (monster or miss) board. Like a pair on the
board.
Overall
+
Reasonable adjustment to what the opponent might hold based on the
board.
+ Seem to play top pair / top
kicker more slowly on board with flushes and straights possible
+ Seem to play high card / no pair more aggressively on
paired flops. Check-raise bluff
+ More
likely to check-raise if opponent put the last bet on the previous
street.
+ Doesn't fold too
often.
Why is "The Brain" so good?
a)
Defense. The basic idea behind its play technique is to
do everything it can "to prevent itself from being exploited". "The
theory behind it is almost paranoid,"
b) Unpredictable. The pokerbot use knowledge gained from billions of
staged rounds of poker fed through neural networks, and the result is an
unpredictable poker player that can win almost every time. Three
different banks of knowledge are used depending on the gameplay scenario, but
the basic idea behind its play technique is, as I said above, "to prevent
itself from being exploited." "The theory behind it is almost paranoid." So "The
Brain" unpredictibility and three different game plays are part of his perfectly
defensive game.
Here are his 3 tag-team
fighters alternating against an opponent.
* The first is a neural net with optimal number of
bluffs and can do anything in anyone hand.
*The second play a slightly different
style.
*The third come into play
when the opponent has a reduced stack.
Aggression level might change at random
moment
c) Aggression. "The
Brain" is the aggressor. Almost never check-calls or simply matches an
opponent's bet without a raise. But give credit to your hand when you raise and
reraise. Far too aggressive and steals
far too many pots to get beat on a regular basis.
Now that we have a complete overview of the strategies and strengths of our four Heads-Up Fixed Limit bosses. We will compare their respective style to each other in the second part of this guide.
PYGOD
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