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Poker Theory and Analytics

Sloan School of Management MIT CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 8 lectures

This course takes a broad-based look at poker theory and applications of poker analytics to investment management and trading. This course is offered during the {{% resource_link "c19bd944-ecac-4621-b07b-c517384106f6" "Independent Activities Period (IAP)" %}}, which is a special 4-week term at MIT in January. IAP provides members of the MIT community including students, faculty, staff, and alums with an opportunity to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of activities and topics that are often outside of the regular MIT curriculum. **Faculty Advisor**: Paul Mende

Syllabus

  1. 1 Introduction to Poker Theory
  2. 2 Analytical Techniques
  3. 3 Basic Strategy
  4. 4 Preflop Analysis
  5. 5 Tournament Play
  6. 6 Poker Economics
  7. 7 Game Theory
  8. 8 Decision Making

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