Introduction to Poker Theory
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- MIT 15.S50 Poker Theory and Analysis, IAP 2015
View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu/15-S50IAP15
Instructor: Kevin Desmond
An overview of the course requirements, expectations, software used for tournaments, advanced techniques, and some basics tools and concepts for the class are discussed in this lecture.
License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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If you're not interested in role playing as a college student, you can skip to 17:00.
Thanks
lol nice
But.. But I am a college student lol.
Thanks for saving me time
Thank you
It's so funny how all these negative comments 6 years ago have proven to be wrong. This guy's teaching was ahead of his time. Gto poker is all about the math . The math guys crush today's tournaments
Its not all about math, like everything else in poker it depends, you have to open up and narrow your range to adjust to your opponents, often times your gonna have toss the nash equilibrium chart out the door and play pretty unbalanced.
@@brucelee5576 you are correct on that point. But in the long run if you make bets best on positive expectation you win negative expectation you lose. That's all math. That's how casinos operate and profit based on math.
Royal, theres a difference between what you teach and how you teach, you are right ,WHAT he teaches is excellent, but he,s a horrendous teacher as far as HOW he teaches, he doesn't make clear points at the same time that he,s ambiguous. Just awful !
For example, when he was talking about Harrington,s. M ratio, totally confusing and useless. Go back and try to make sense of that explanation , good luck!
@@royalflush8173
True, but the casino analogy not best , facing the casino always neg. EV.
This is quite possibly the best class I’ve ever watched on opencourse 😂
Nothing like going to a 45 grand a year best in the world engineering school to learn to play cards.
murmaider2 Nothing like a free course online from a 45-grand-a-year school about learning to play cards
Audiack fk yea
murmaider2 Sucka! lol
herpherpbrocolli Yep, definitely wouldn't bother - It'd certainly be a waste, in your case.
herpherpbrocolli Am I right in thinking that the only State Variable you'll need to track in your future will be, "Which way up is the pattie?" ? :-/
this seems like such a dope class to take
Finally an MIT class I could pass
even MIT has to teach the same material. It's the same curriculum as their equivalent class in another school
@@Richard-ot5ss That isn’t true. I go to Purdue and I saw the MIT homework and it is absolutely crazy. Their discrete math on week 5 is already past our entire semester’s worth of content. Their classes are much harder than their equivalent at another school. I also don’t thing Purdue’s discrete math for CS is a easy class. The class average was 65 in my class and the average ACT score for my class was 35.
@@jasonli4961 purdue like the chickens?
at least you got the point he is trying to make
@@jasonli4961no wonder 70% acceptance rate school is easier than a 4% one. Duh
Keep these coming please! Especially the advance stuff!
I’m actually experiencing FOMO watching this! I wouldn’t make the student debt for it though, but really appreciated the voice in my head saying “CZcams poker class”
Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up!!! 👍👍👍👍👍
Plot twist: half the class dropped out of MIT to play poker online and went broke.
anon ymous I doubt that very much. More like they dropped out of school and became rich poker pros.
A lot of poker pros have Ivy league education. They make money doing what they studied for and once they have the bankroll they go on to play poker full-time.
delusion is correct.
YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT POKER. What u said is absolutely NOT TRUE.
If you're smart enough to get into MIT, chances are you're smart enough to make a living playing online poker. Or, at the very least they wouldn't go broke.
This course is an absolute dream
The way to play against tight aggressive is by not letting them flop until they give in
It's applying the process to something that people can interact with to understand analytical data.
On the other hand, if you get good at poker through the course... who's to say that you can play your way through an expensive college.
It's just like chess, but each move will cost you a lot sooner than later. I'd prefer the poker in regards to chess.
Poker and chess are very dissimilar. Good poker players can clean u out from nowhere with deception. In chess you can see it coming.
I don't think that's true. You can have a garbage strategy or no strategy and still be up after multiple sessions in poker. They're similar in that they've both been virtually "solved" with computers in comparison to humans. They're also similar in that generally the farther the hand/game progresses the value of decisions increase exponentially, that seems to be the opposite "cost you a lot sooner than later", but maybe that's a misinterpretation of what you meant.
Stupid comparison...
@@jaironunez7196 When you make an empty and unsubstantiated claim, it's only your comment...
@@internetanalytics618 good chess players can clean you out from nowhere with deception as well. In both games, its all about who makes the best move. Unfortunately in poker luck is more of a factor for each decision. Chess is not, it is purely logical.
He seems like a better player than teacher. He's all over the place.
yea for the first 10-20 minutes I was like how is this guy a MIT teacher there is no structure to this course but them realized he's a poker player not a teacher.
@@kyle6521 come on, you guys are being so hard on him. It's literally the orientation, he looks exactly like every other professor I have on the start of class and I'm going for my master's in physics and have a math degree he looks exactly like a professor in math (I assume this is type of a math course?)
every time there is a teacher on youtube people analyze every word they say but students are not stupid. Most of the work is done OUTSIDE of class. I feel like the people who write these comments are into school themselves because it is totally standard.
excellent work... almost makes me wish i was a beginner again.
If you think this was excellent poker education, you are a beginner.
Internet Analytics check out the title of the video.
@@internetanalytics618 everyone back away take cover we have the ultimate bad ass here
16:06 is where the poker stuff starts
My gosh. I only saw this after lol
Big Dog!
i have been playing cards since i was a little kid (specifically omaha)- i wish i had this class at my college
absolute HYPE, thank you MIT.
Just now seeing this and being casual poker player... and 24yrs military, gotta love the irony in the LAG acronym--meaning complete opposite of the lag term most people are used to hearing tossed around, aka slow af.
"Honestly, like, this league is going to be really cool."
Thanks MIT!
Bwahahahha
It’s like a quote from idiocracy
@@allstarmark12345why what happens whe
“So you’ll hear people talk about like ‘Oh I had ten big blinds’ or fifteen big blinds or whatever to talk about their chip stack but that has the fundamental problem of...um...it...it has a lot of different problems. One is it doesn’t, um, it doesn’t tell the story of...so blinds - so the usual blind levels are one/two or two/four where the big blind is just twice the small blind...so that’s just like the assumption. But if you’re at a blind level that’s at, like, one/three and then like..or three/five the number of big blinds you have is not indicative of...of...anything. It’s not indicative of, like, how many hands you can see or how much you care about winning a pot pre flop. So using big blinds is bad. In addition to, once you start having like..if you’re fifty/a hundred blinds and you have an ante of, like twenty-five, like you, like, have basically half the stack that you had before in realistic terms.”
They're the actual words that come out of his actual mouth at around 25:40 onward.
Steven Rowland lol 😂
And what’s an ante? He never explained looool
"effective M is... is your M divided by aaaahm...you multiply by how short stack your table or how short handed your table is "
Harrington M & Q value is important - his 3 books on tournament play is the bible, plus Theory of Poker, then you have to go to GTO books...it's a journey not a rush
As a Poker Player, it's hilarious to see this as a college course. 22:45 is key.
This information was fire 6 years ago. Very small minded to criticize it today. Even though the critics dont understand whats different now
May I know is this the last course of Poker Theory and Analysis? THX
He was nicknamed Action Dan by Mayfair (an NYC poker club) because of his genral tightness.
I love the fact this class is online, but a lecturer @ MIT should not keep saying "like" every minute.
it's harder to get in than stay in
The Dan Harrington books is all I needed to learn this game.
hey is just mentioned in Harrington in a previous comment. Harrington is LEGIT
Dan Harrington's books are outdated now for example nobody uses M now
The Harrington books had players basically flipping their cards up during the Moneymaker era.
People would start stupid arguments with me after I had the stronger hand when the money went in (which is like, the goal of the game), with "Have you even read Harrington"? Whether I read Harrington or not, your squeeze was garbage, because nobody folded. And you were so predictable that I called with pocket 6s because you guys always squeeze with tiny pairs.
But what I would actually say was "what's that?" following Mike Caro's advice that you never give lessons at the poker table.
@@jessejordache1869 what are you trying to say? I missed your point.
@@royalflush8173 eh, don't ask. When I read them they were unbelievably trendy, and you had players springing leaks because they all followed the plays Harrington recommended with the same combination of cards.
But at any rate, the classic Harrington books are on tournaments, which are high variance and not my thing.
16:01 begins actually discussing poker
office hours scenario:
student: i missed what to do if we get pocket jacks against king 10 off suit.
teacher: (puts 25 dollars on the table). let’s do a $25 buy in and we will play it out both ways.
Is bluff allowed during the exam : could we use cheat sheet
Great lecture
i keep expecting the camera to turn around and show that he is talkin to a group of ten year olds. this video make me feel like such a better poker player than I felt like I was before.
GTO poker was a thing back when I started in 08.
This course should be called "The Ramblings of a Mad Man".
This dude looks like he read a book about poker and got REALLY into it, but wasn’t really prepared to teach a class.
Unless at some point he says during the lecture "I am not mad" then it doesn't fulfill the MIT rubric for Madman Studies.
Experience will always be the best teacher
Still, even the best players have coaches, and spend time going over hands and situations.
@@ManoceanLive Experience will also teach you how to read players.
Need an advanced strategy class for sports betting (each sport should have their own class strategy taught) also
GL in 2016 and never give up!
"Identify value and monetize it" about 14:45 is this guy's equivalent to the Red Baron's suggestion "Find the enemy and shoot them down."
He's telling us what to do -- which is certainly the first few hundred steps toward winning; it still leaves a little bit to learn, i.e. how to do it. 👍😎 That's laughter, but neither wry not mocking: it is genuinely funny that most people are floundering because they don't know what they're doing, not because they don't know how to do it.
For the record, note that the Red Baron eventually crashed and burned, probably, though this is not certain, shot by a rifleman on the ground.
the perfect soundtrack for the background:
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Album • Antonio Sánchez
try the playlist in youtub
Great Teacher !
Wonder if you gotta buy your own deck of cards or if it comes with enrolling in the class?
MIT finally did it
was this course before pokerstars NJ opened? cause its legal in Jersey
good article
i watched a video about caisno games and stats. and then i thought wow if i got taught probability in highschool in the context of casino games, i would have loved it lol. well turns out someone already did that in mit
does he say Kevin Dossman??? is he related to dossman from Hacksaw Ridge???
in online doesn't matter, you can call an all in preflop with 72 off suited to a pocket aces and you will win, test it
Yes who tests the RNGs for actual 52 card deck simulation? Beats Me.
The Aces are only 85% favourite to win, 15 times in 100 they will get cracked, there are no certainties based on the first two cards. If you play 100,000 hands and check the stats in Poker Tracker you will find the probabilities hold up, instead of just playing for a week and getting sucked out on so much that you believe its all rigged.
6:11 pause and read blackboard
Too bad nobody commented in 2 years.. You saw Anal in a random poker video that's really funny you have a social media? Maybe we could play some poker?
😂
ayo i would’ve never in my *LIFE* expect MIT to have poker classes wtf haha
what major is this class a part of?
is this math, psychology, game theory, stats? (i dont want to watch the full class.)
16:30, non class specific video start
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Professor tell your students about the rake that gets taken out of the pools
That’s why the players fade away and are always looking for backers
He definitely saw this comment.
where can I find the actual screen?
Anyone have issues with Universal Hand Replayer?
Is there an advanced course in DonkeyNomics???
Is Ben Campbell in the audience? Yup! as well is Fisher,Choi, Kianna and Jill Taylor in the class😅
Ola, entrando agora no time
This guy is pretty clearly a low limit player.
Leggo My Ego could you pls elaborate?
nano-stakes confirmed
You should stay at nano stakes donkey. It will save you a TON of money and the live players will CLEAN YOU OUT.
Loving the depth of this content? There exists a book with an analogous focus I'd recommend. "Game Theory and the Pursuit of Algorithmic Fairness" by Jack Frostwell
I love that MIT did a course like this, and that the insructor is obviously a quintessential poker nerd, but if I had to listen to a guy use the word "like" as often, and as incorrectly as this at a top-tier university, I'd be pretty disappointed. I assume also that most of the people who sign up for this course are already into poker and know the basics and a lot of the terminology. Anyone without some poker knowledge would be lost after 20 minutes.
Damn what the heck?? an MIT course on poker?? lmao how cool
Poker legend Ryan Skappel sent me here!!
Thanks
Did anyone else try and read the old chalk writing to get something useful?
Which lecture is “all in”
For those who might not know, this instructor is telling you things that have many errors. i.e. a passive player is not a rock. Rocks are very selective with their hands, but generally play the hands they get strongly.
I thought Rocks were considered Tight-Passive. What you're describing sounds more like Tight-Aggressive ( TAG ) which I haven't heard people use interchangeably with Rock. Surely, that doesn't mean you're wrong, though.
@@Beatyofeet32 A rock is just tight. It's also a word that comes from non-academic slang "that guy was the rock of gibralter." but isn"t that useful in a theoretical framework, because it doesn't tell you how hard he pushes, or doesn"t push, his hands.
That's tight aggressive champ
Poker in the US still is in a grey area. You might want to talk to a lawyer before you give legal definitions. The only places Poker for real money is illegal in the US are the states that have passed specific laws that bar it, either entirely, or only blocking those that don't hold a local licence.
Other sites operate in a grey market that is unregulated, but not illegal under US law. The Black Friday indictments were mainly for money laundering and related charges, and not for offering an illegal game (these charges have never gone to court, and no site has ever been charged with offering an illegal service inside the US).
Just a PSA to advise of the legal status of poker in the US. Looking forward to the rest of the series. It's great to see a seat of learning as prestigious as MIT getting involved in poker theory.
He basically said “online poker is black and white, it’s not allowed”. But go on
@@CampCucumber replying to a comment I made 6 years ago? Luckily for me the legality of poler in the US hasn't changed, and I work in the Industry
@@robking6975 Wow! It was such a bizarre comment that I had to reply.
Wasn’t there a movie with this same narrative lol
21? 🎬 with Kevin Spacey
15:40 someone coughed and the whole class didn't evacute
Those years
do students have computers to take notes
Now you can play online
Some terms and agreements 🧐
Sounds like this guy is trying to teach the class about what he's just been learning about Poker as a means to further develop his Poker ability. Spouts a lot of unsure, confusing nonsense but his heart's in the right place.
? It is better to be unsure.
Kgb - " Give that man his likes ."
Should this course be named "Poker Theory"? The content so far is more "Applied Poker"? Was expecting [0 1] and stuff
mjs28s I guess you are right. Bill Chen and Hoss_TBF's lectures at least should cover some theory. But this lecture was only applied poker.
Do you need to know poker first, or will you learn it by watching the videos?
If you know the basic terms, sure you will learn
This course is mostly about teaching you how to be winning player, you gotta already know how to play poker.
Calling "machine"? What? I've never heard that terminology. It's a Calling station.
lul
Same difference
9uvwxyz same thing, ace.
9uvwxyz It's P. O. W. Pay off wizard.
Eric Carrillo POW is only about calling on the river when you are beat but a calling stations will call at unfavorable odds at any point when they should either be raising or folding.
Don't mess around, play poker. =)
this guy must have millions and millions if he is so good at poker right
If the mind remains unmoved by
circumstances, it will be detached from
the notion of form.
Skip to 17:00
is threre some write material about this class?
Check out the full course site on OCW for the materials (includes lecture slides and psets + solutions): ocw.mit.edu/15-S50IAP15.
25:39 "Blinds and empties"
Nick H antes
What’s the code???
anyone sharing the invite code?
I wonder if in thirty years every MIT professor will say "like" four times per sentence.
And ta instead of 'to' and 'gonna' instead of going. (Yah gonna like ta (May be a sentence)).
It's a PA. That's why 😭
I wish I could've had this course in college.
Collegefraud😂😂
lol now u can get it for free
Taught all this to myself in college. Too bad I couldn’t get credit for it
last year I told my ex girlfriend I didn’t respond because I was writing a paper, in reality I was in a big tournament 😂
I can guarantee nobody from this class went pro
The calling machine icon looks like the network/internet icon from windows 95/98
finally...something useful coming from Higher Education.
Play money is the biggest waste of time to improve your poker past learning the basics
“Like”
“Like”
“Like”
“Like”
“Like”
This guy spoke very clearly, but all of the “like”s made it so hard to listen to for me personally.
Lesson plan by Daniel Negreanu
Information starts at 3:50
Eyebrows are out of control
there called "calling stations" not calling machines
*They're*
Where are the rest of the clip
Here is the playlist for the course: czcams.com/play/PLUl4u3cNGP61kfOW3zAIfpNhf0piao8oo.html. For more info and materials, visit the course on MIT OpenCourseWare at: ocw.mit.edu/15-S50IAP15. Best wishes on your studies!