Applying Artificial Intelligence Techniques to the Game of Texas Hold‘em.

This extended abstract refers to research which is currently being undertaken as part of a Masters thesis into the investigation of artificial intelligence techniques applied to the game of poker. This research will focus specifically on a variation of poker known as Texas hold‘em (described below). Texas hold‘em provides a non-deterministic, hostile environment in which players must deal with incomplete information and uncertainty. Decision making in this type of environment has not been well addressed by A.I games research in the past and it is believed that advances made in games of this sort will also reap rewards in real-world problems as well. Games and Artificial Intelligenc