MATH 5
The Mathematics of Poker
Game Theory Syllabus

Key:
Math of Poker ="The Mathematics of Poker", by Chen and Ankenmann
Ferguson = "Game Theory, Part II: Two-Person Zero-Sum Games."  Online course notes by Thomas Ferguson.
                      Available at http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tom/Game_Theory/mat.pdf
                      (If you are having trouble with this link, try here.)
Notes = On-line course notes by Bachman and Bleiler.
                      Available at http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/~dbachman/m5/PokerMath.pdf
FF1 = "On the Borel and von Neumann Poker Models,"by Thomas Ferguson and Chris Ferguson.
                      Available at http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tom/papers/poker1.pdf
FF2 = "The Endgame in Poker," by Thomas Ferguson and Chris Ferguson.
                      Available at http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tom/papers/poker3.pdf


Schedule
Ferguson,  Chapter 1
Ferguson, Chapter 2
Math of Poker, Chapter 10
Notes, "Simplified poker"
Ferguson, Chapter 5
Stripped down poker (in class)
Math of Poker, Chapter 11, pages 111-114 (top)
Math of Poker, Chapter 13
Math of Poker Chapter 14, pages 148-153
FF2
Ferguson, Chapter 7
Math of Poker, Chapter 11, 114-122
Math of Poker, Chapter 14, pages 154-157
FF1
Math of Poker, Chapter 12
Jam-or-Fold video (in class)
Math of Poker, Chapters 15-21 (as time permits)


Homework
All problems in Ferguson, as we get to them.