Introduction to Poker Theory 

If you're not interested in role playing as a college student, you can skip to 17:00.

It's so funny how all these negative comments 6 years ago have proven to be wrong. This guy's teaching was ahead of his time. Gto poker is all about the math . The math guys crush today's tournaments

Nothing like going to a 45 grand a year best in the world engineering school to learn to play cards.

This is quite possibly the best class I’ve ever watched on opencourse 😂

I’m actually experiencing FOMO watching this! I wouldn’t make the student debt for it though, but really appreciated the voice in my head saying “RU-vid poker class”

this seems like such a dope class to take

Keep these coming please! Especially the advance stuff!

Finally an MIT class I could pass

He seems like a better player than teacher. He's all over the place.

Plot twist: half the class dropped out of MIT to play poker online and went broke.

It's applying the process to something that people can interact with to understand analytical data. On the other hand, if you get good at poker through the course... who's to say that you can play your way through an expensive college. It's just like chess, but each move will cost you a lot sooner than later. I'd prefer the poker in regards to chess.

16:06 is where the poker stuff starts

"Honestly, like, this league is going to be really cool." Thanks MIT!

The way to play against tight aggressive is by not letting them flop until they give in

Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up!!! 👍👍👍👍👍

This course is an absolute dream

Just now seeing this and being casual poker player... and 24yrs military, gotta love the irony in the LAG acronym--meaning complete opposite of the lag term most people are used to hearing tossed around, aka slow af.

absolute HYPE, thank you MIT.

I love the fact this class is online, but a lecturer @ MIT should not keep saying "like" every minute.

excellent work... almost makes me wish i was a beginner again.

i have been playing cards since i was a little kid (specifically omaha)- i wish i had this class at my college

May I know is this the last course of Poker Theory and Analysis? THX

16:01 begins actually discussing poker

"effective M is... is your M divided by aaaahm...you multiply by how short stack your table or how short handed your table is "

Is bluff allowed during the exam : could we use cheat sheet

“So you’ll hear people talk about like ‘Oh I had ten big blinds’ or fifteen big blinds or whatever to talk about their chip stack but that has the fundamental problem of...um...it...it has a lot of different problems. One is it doesn’t, um, it doesn’t tell the story of...so blinds - so the usual blind levels are one/two or two/four where the big blind is just twice the small blind...so that’s just like the assumption. But if you’re at a blind level that’s at, like, one/three and then like..or three/five the number of big blinds you have is not indicative of...of...anything. It’s not indicative of, like, how many hands you can see or how much you care about winning a pot pre flop. So using big blinds is bad. In addition to, once you start having like..if you’re fifty/a hundred blinds and you have an ante of, like twenty-five, like you, like, have basically half the stack that you had before in realistic terms.” They're the actual words that come out of his actual mouth at around 25:40 onward.

Harrington M & Q value is important - his 3 books on tournament play is the bible, plus Theory of Poker, then you have to go to GTO books...it's a journey not a rush

The Dan Harrington books is all I needed to learn this game.

was this course before pokerstars NJ opened? cause its legal in Jersey

He was nicknamed Action Dan by Mayfair (an NYC poker club) because of his genral tightness.

Wonder if you gotta buy your own deck of cards or if it comes with enrolling in the class?

GTO poker was a thing back when I started in 08.

what major is this class a part of? is this math, psychology, game theory, stats? (i dont want to watch the full class.)

As a Poker Player, it's hilarious to see this as a college course. 22:45 is key.

This information was fire 6 years ago. Very small minded to criticize it today. Even though the critics dont understand whats different now

i keep expecting the camera to turn around and show that he is talkin to a group of ten year olds. this video make me feel like such a better poker player than I felt like I was before.

Need an advanced strategy class for sports betting (each sport should have their own class strategy taught) also

does he say Kevin Dossman??? is he related to dossman from Hacksaw Ridge???

6:11 pause and read blackboard

"Identify value and monetize it" about 14:45 is this guy's equivalent to the Red Baron's suggestion "Find the enemy and shoot them down." He's telling us what to do -- which is certainly the first few hundred steps toward winning; it still leaves a little bit to learn, i.e. how to do it. 👍😎 That's laughter, but neither wry not mocking: it is genuinely funny that most people are floundering because they don't know what they're doing, not because they don't know how to do it. For the record, note that the Red Baron eventually crashed and burned, probably, though this is not certain, shot by a rifleman on the ground.

the perfect soundtrack for the background: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Album • Antonio Sánchez try the playlist in youtub

where can I find the actual screen?

This course should be called "The Ramblings of a Mad Man".

i watched a video about caisno games and stats. and then i thought wow if i got taught probability in highschool in the context of casino games, i would have loved it lol. well turns out someone already did that in mit

Is there an advanced course in DonkeyNomics???

GL in 2016 and never give up!

Anyone have issues with Universal Hand Replayer?

Loving the depth of this content? There exists a book with an analogous focus I'd recommend. "Game Theory and the Pursuit of Algorithmic Fairness" by Jack Frostwell

16:30, non class specific video start

Calling "machine"? What? I've never heard that terminology. It's a Calling station.

Professor tell your students about the rake that gets taken out of the pools That’s why the players fade away and are always looking for backers

Sounds like this guy is trying to teach the class about what he's just been learning about Poker as a means to further develop his Poker ability. Spouts a lot of unsure, confusing nonsense but his heart's in the right place.

do students have computers to take notes

This guy is pretty clearly a low limit player.

in online doesn't matter, you can call an all in preflop with 72 off suited to a pocket aces and you will win, test it

Experience will always be the best teacher

Great lecture

Is Ben Campbell in the audience? Yup! as well is Fisher,Choi, Kianna and Jill Taylor in the class😅

Wasn’t there a movie with this same narrative lol 21? 🎬 with Kevin Spacey

is threre some write material about this class?

Should this course be named "Poker Theory"? The content so far is more "Applied Poker"? Was expecting [0 1] and stuff

Which lecture is “all in”

I think I know less now than before I watched the video. He spent over 4 mins talking about types of players (which should take 10 seconds) and then 1 minute on M-ratio. Don't know if I should watch anymore of these! Nothing personal, I am sure he'll get better as he gets more used to teaching the course. Goodluck!

ayo i would’ve never in my *LIFE* expect MIT to have poker classes wtf haha

office hours scenario: student: i missed what to do if we get pocket jacks against king 10 off suit. teacher: (puts 25 dollars on the table). let’s do a $25 buy in and we will play it out both ways.

Poker in the US still is in a grey area. You might want to talk to a lawyer before you give legal definitions. The only places Poker for real money is illegal in the US are the states that have passed specific laws that bar it, either entirely, or only blocking those that don't hold a local licence. Other sites operate in a grey market that is unregulated, but not illegal under US law. The Black Friday indictments were mainly for money laundering and related charges, and not for offering an illegal game (these charges have never gone to court, and no site has ever been charged with offering an illegal service inside the US). Just a PSA to advise of the legal status of poker in the US. Looking forward to the rest of the series. It's great to see a seat of learning as prestigious as MIT getting involved in poker theory.

MIT finally did it

Great Teacher !

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Damn what the heck?? an MIT course on poker?? lmao how cool

Ola, entrando agora no time

15:40 someone coughed and the whole class didn't evacute Those years

What’s the code???

I love that MIT did a course like this, and that the insructor is obviously a quintessential poker nerd, but if I had to listen to a guy use the word "like" as often, and as incorrectly as this at a top-tier university, I'd be pretty disappointed. I assume also that most of the people who sign up for this course are already into poker and know the basics and a lot of the terminology. Anyone without some poker knowledge would be lost after 20 minutes.

I wonder if in thirty years every MIT professor will say "like" four times per sentence.

For those who might not know, this instructor is telling you things that have many errors. i.e. a passive player is not a rock. Rocks are very selective with their hands, but generally play the hands they get strongly.

I wish I could've had this course in college.

Do you need to know poker first, or will you learn it by watching the videos?

good article

anyone sharing the invite code?

Poker legend Ryan Skappel sent me here!!

Did anyone else try and read the old chalk writing to get something useful?

25:39 "Blinds and empties"

It’s funny how he wipes off the zeroes just to write over the first numbers and write the zeroes again

Some terms and agreements 🧐

Taught all this to myself in college. Too bad I couldn’t get credit for it

there called "calling stations" not calling machines

The way he explains things makes it harder to understand tbh

The calling machine icon looks like the network/internet icon from windows 95/98

Kgb - " Give that man his likes ."

If the mind remains unmoved by circumstances, it will be detached from the notion of form.

Information starts at 3:50 Eyebrows are out of control

Thanks

So you don't have to be articulate to teach at MIT?

Don't mess around, play poker. =)

who is he looking at? It's not his students, it's not the camera... Do they have teleprompters in lecture halls?

Are you still teaching this?

So so jealous of MIT students getting to do this course.

Where are the rest of the clip

this guy must have millions and millions if he is so good at poker right