In the card game, you make your decision based on the odds that your opponent has a good hand. That approach doesn’t quite work for poker. That’s more unique scenarios than there are atoms in the universe.Ĭomputers managed to ”solve” games such as checkers by calculating an unbeatable strategy before a match even starts. The game involves about 10 160 (a 1 followed by 160 zeroes) decision points. But for a computer, heads-up no-limit is dizzyingly complex. With practice, humans can easily learn the rules of the game.
