6.176, or MIT Pokerbots, is a computerized poker tournament. Teams have one month to program a completely autonomous pokerbot to compete against other teams. Competitors must learn and apply concepts in economics, mathematics, and computer science not normally developed together in academic settings in order to conquer their opponents. Jul 22 - Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu and Mark Crumpton weigh in on MIT opening a free online poker course. They speak on 'Bloomberg Markets.” (Source: Bloomberg) - Subscribe to Bloomberg on. Poker Theory and Analytics is a graduate-level MIT course taught by Kevin Desmond, a former pro player and Morgan Stanley analyst. The school offers the course online, meaning video lectures, assignments, and class notes are available to anyone for free. The MIT course will focus on helping online poker players master the basics and also look at factors that most poker players don’t pay attention to. Some of these factors will include betting and raising patterns, seating arrangements and judging the future behavior of one’s opponents based on past behavioral patterns.

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Kevin Desmond

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15.S50

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January IAP 2015

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Graduate

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Instructor(s)	Prof.
As Taught In	Spring 2002
Course Number	2.24
Level	Undergraduate/Graduate
Features	Lecture Notes, Student Work

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This course takes a broad-based look at poker theory and applications of poker analytics to investment management and trading.

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