Special Colloquium for Students: Game-theoretic analysis of Guts Poker
- Event Type
- Seminar/Symposium
- Sponsor
- Department of Mathematics
- Location
- 245 Altgeld Hall
- Date
- Apr 7, 2022 4:00 pm
- Speaker
- Kevin Zumbrun (Indiana University Bloomington)
- Contact
- Vera Hur
- verahur@math.uiuc.edu
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- 38
We present the results of a summer 2021 REU project with students Luca Castronova and Yijia Chen on a game theoretic analysis of the poker variant "Guts''. This is interesting as a streamlined poker version that is widely played- also due to the feature of repeated play with increasing stakes, i.e., its nature as a noncontractive recursive game. Also interesting is that we carry out the analysis for arbitrary numbers of players n, finding an explicit symmetric Nash equilibrium, but showing that it is not a strong equilibrium: that is, it can be beaten by a coalition of players 2-n.