Blind stealing: Experience and expertise in a mixed-strategy poker experiment
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We explore the role of experience in mixed-strategy games by comparing, for a stylized version of Texas Hold-em, the behavior of experts, who have extensive experience playing poker online, to the behavior of novices. We Önd signiÖcant di§erences. The initial frequencies with which players bet and call are closer to equilibrium for experts than novices. And, while the betting and calling frequencies of both types of subjects exhibit too much heterogeneity to be consistent with equilibrium play, the frequencies of experts exhibit less heterogeneity. We Önd evidence that the style of online play transfers from the
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Games and Economic Behavior
دوره 91 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015