Course Meeting Times
Lectures: 2–3 sessions / week for 4 weeks, 1.5 hours / session
Prerequisites
Permission of instructor.
Course Overview
- Poker Concepts: preflop ranges, 3-betting, continuation betting, check-raising, floating, bet sizing, implied odds, polarization, ICM theory, data mining in poker
- Math Concepts: probability and expectation, variance and the Law of Large Numbers, Nash Equilibrium
- General Concepts: decisions vs. results, exploitative play vs. balanced play, risk management
Grading
Grading for this course is Pass / Fail.
To pass, you must do all of the following:
- Attend at least 6 out of 8 lectures
- Complete the 2 homeworks
- Accumulate 10 points in the online Pokerstars MIT 15.S50 league
Pokerstars league for MIT 15.S50 Daily Tournament Schedule
- 6:00 PM - Daily 6-handed
- 7:00 PM - Daily Major
- 8:00 PM - Daily Turbo
- 9:00 PM - Daily Deepstack
- 10:00 PM - Daily Shortstack
- 11:00 PM - Daily Hyper-turbo
