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Ben’s Status Report for Feb 7th

This week I went more in-depth researching advanced poker algorithms and their implementation, and made decisions on what I should actually implement. The goal is to have a model that can be competitive vs casual or amateur poker players, not necessarily to be able to beat professionals. Thus, the basic idea is to take portions of the Libratus and Pluribus papers and either simplify or implement features in a less granular way, so that the model can both be simpler to implement and take less time to train. At the moment, the simplifications are likely to be a much less refined subgame solving protocol similar to the Pluribus one, as well as rounding bet amounts, and other simplifications. I am on schedule, and next week I will be looking to implement the base of the poker game on which I can begin to implement monte carlo methods.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aao1733

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Team Status Report for Feb 7th

The most significant risk is if RFID does not read the chips fast enough. We are going to do some testing this week to see if we can limit this problem by using color sensors.

We have no changes in our design or schedule as we are just starting, we are hopeful that we will face no slow downs from ordering.

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Sam’s Status Report for February 7th

This week I did our Proposal presentation so a good chunk of my week has been preparing speaking notes and practicing. I’ve also started design for the chip return, first by printing some stl’s online to get an idea of how other people have created things to deal with poker chips.

I think my progress is on schedule, we haven’t made significant progress on any portions of our project but our schedule is aiming for the most intensive work to be done starting this Monday, which is when we will be ordering and assembling.

This week I want to do testing on if RFID works fast enough and accurately enough for this project, and how much color sensors would help. I also want to start designing the 3D file for printing the chip collection, so I need to at least create how chips will be fed into my sorter.