What I would say to these people isĪ) 0.1 bb/100 achievable winrate is tiny andī) if they really want to get this number lower they can do so by simply turning their algorithm back on and letting it run more iterations. Some major troll nits were complaining that if it’s possible to have a positive winrate vs Cepheus then heads up limit hold’em isn’t solved. So for example if you were playing true GTO headsup $200/$400 limit holdem vs Cepheus you could expect to win about $200 * 0.0986 = $19.72 per hour per table. In poker terms this equates to (0.986 milli big blinds / hand) * (1 big blind / 1000 milli big blinds) * (100) = 0.986 *. The maximum achievable winrate playing vs Cepheus is listed in the paper as 0.986 milli-big-blind per game(by game they mean hand). They referred to a “hand” as a “game” and measured edges in “milli-big-blinds/game” instead of a more typical “bb/100”.

There were a few interesting stats given in the paper that I don’t feel were talked about much by the media because it wasn’t explained all that well and put in normal “poker speak” terms. Source: Scientific Paper Interesting Stats In a five years this computation cost should be one tenth of this current estimate and we’ll have 10TB hardrives for $50(current cost of 1TB hardrives ) and be able to download and save the whole strategy easily on our home computer. Of course computing cost decreases over time over time as shown by the graph below. Cost of computing estimateĪ large compute optimized on-demand instance with 32 2.6-GHz Intel Xeon cores, 60 GB of RAM, and 320-GB of local disk is probably the most similar node to the ones used by the Alberta researchers. The good news is you can download and run it yourself, the bad news it’s going to cost you a lot to get an exact Cepheus replica($500k by my estimate). I was curious if you could download the code and run it yourself and how much it would cost. It’s not easy to figure out if it tends to check back certain boards or what its cbet % is for example. You can query the GTO bot named Cepheus’ strategy here īut it’s slow and not really displayed in an easy to understand way for humans emulate. You can read the original scientific paper here In case you haven’t heard by now heads up limit hold’em has been solved.

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