Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts · chapter 3 · id thinking-in-bets-c3-06-in-poker-the-skill-component-d
“In poker, the skill component dominates over long periods while luck dominates short-term results. Academic research has quantified this decomposition using equity analysis.”
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University of Toronto, Jeffrey Rosenthal research on luck vs skill in pokersource alive
Rosenthal and his team developed 'equity in the middle of a hand' to determine expected winnings at any point, enabling quantitative measurement of profit due to luck versus skill.
Billings et al., University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Groupsource alive
The stochasticity of poker has a highly detrimental effect on performance assessment. The signal-to-noise ratio is low.
Brown & Sandholm (2019), 'Superhuman AI for multiplayer poker,' ScienceDOI registry: valid
Poker involves hidden information and stochastic outcomes. Pluribus achieved superhuman performance in six-player no-limit Texas hold'em, demonstrating that skill can systematically overcome luck given sufficient sample size.
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