The only way to know whether your decision logic is real is to put it against opponents who didn’t read your code. Skipping unit tests gives you off-by-one bugs in showdowns; skipping self-play hides crashes; skipping live play gives you a bot that beats itself but loses to anything that didn’t read your code. Anything less and folding is correct; anything more and the call is mathematically right over the long run, regardless of this particular hand’s outcome. Continue reading “Your Cards Are Played by AI”