Building a Texas Hold'em playing AI..from scratch

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andandandand picture andandandand · Feb 3, 2009 · Viewed 28.6k times · Source

I'm interested in building a Texas Hold 'Em AI engine in Java. This is a long term project, one in which I plan to invest at least two years. I'm still at college, haven't build anything ambitious yet and wanting to tackle a problem that will hold my interest in the long term. I'm new to the field of AI. From my data structures class at college, I know basic building blocks like BFS and DFS, backtracking, DP, trees, graphs, etc. I'm learning regex, studying for the SCJP and the SCJD and I'll shortly take a (dense) statistics course.

Questions:

-Where do I get started? What books should I pick? What kind of AI do poker playing programs run on? What open source project can I take a page from? Any good AI resources in Java? I'm interested in learning Lisp as well, is Jatha good?

Answer

grom picture grom · Feb 3, 2009

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