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Heads-up limit hold’em poker is solved

Overview of attention for article published in Science, January 2015
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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116 news outlets
blogs
19 blogs
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987 X users
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1 weibo user
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49 Facebook pages
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18 Wikipedia pages
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14 Google+ users

Citations

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282 Mendeley
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8 CiteULike
Title
Heads-up limit hold’em poker is solved
Published in
Science, January 2015
DOI 10.1126/science.1259433
Pubmed ID
Authors

Michael Bowling, Neil Burch, Michael Johanson, Oskari Tammelin

Abstract

Poker is a family of games that exhibit imperfect information, where players do not have full knowledge of past events. Whereas many perfect-information games have been solved (e.g., Connect Four and checkers), no nontrivial imperfect-information game played competitively by humans has previously been solved. Here, we announce that heads-up limit Texas hold'em is now essentially weakly solved. Furthermore, this computation formally proves the common wisdom that the dealer in the game holds a substantial advantage. This result was enabled by a new algorithm, CFR(+), which is capable of solving extensive-form games orders of magnitude larger than previously possible.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 1%
Germany 3 1%
United Kingdom 3 1%
France 3 1%
Italy 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Estonia 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 259 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 68 24%
Researcher 67 24%
Student > Master 30 11%
Student > Bachelor 30 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 12 4%
Other 40 14%
Unknown 35 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 98 35%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 30 11%
Engineering 28 10%
Physics and Astronomy 23 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 3%
Other 55 20%
Unknown 40 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1527. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 March 2024.
All research outputs
#7,639
of 25,554,853 outputs
Outputs from Science
#409
of 83,114 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#49
of 359,626 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#6
of 1,086 outputs
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