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Le Her with s Suits and d Denominations

Part of: Game theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Sithparran Vanniasegaram
Sithparran Vanniasegaram*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
*
∗ Postal address: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3840, USA. Email address: [email protected]
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Abstract

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In 2002, Benjamin and Goldman gave a complete solution to a variant of the two-player card game Le Her. We extend their result by giving optimal strategies for the authentic version played with a deck consisting of arbitrary numbers of suits and denominations. Additionally, we show that the player who has the advantage in the game when one standard deck is used does not have the advantage if nineteen or more standard decks are used.

Keywords

Le Hergame theory

MSC classification

Primary: 91A60: Probabilistic games; gambling
Secondary: 91A80: Applications of game theory
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 1 - 15
Copyright
© Applied Probability Trust 2006 

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