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  • Counterfactual regret minimization: original paper

    NeurIPS / Zinkevich and colleagues · Free · Research paper

    The 2007 publication introducing counterfactual regret and a method for solving large imperfect-information games.

    Before you use it: Publication page and abstract read, not a proof audit or reproduction. Equilibrium conclusions require the paper's game assumptions.

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  • PokerKit documentation

    PokerKit · Free · Documentation

    Documentation for a Python library covering poker game simulation, hand evaluation, and analysis.

    Before you use it: Research and development resource. Its implementation was not audited for this directory.

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  • Poker Hand History file format specification

    Juho Kim / PHH project · Free · Specification

    A human-readable, machine-parsable format for recording poker hands across variants, with required fields, notation, and examples.

    Before you use it: The format documents records; it cannot establish that a hand actually happened. Keep private participant details out of shared examples.

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