# Sparbot

Sparbot can only play the heads-up game. Sparbot, as the name implies, is a great opponent to spar against. It plays a solid, defensive game of poker. It should be difficult to read and to exploit.

Sparbot attempts to play in a near-optimal way. It hides information by playing a proper balance of randomized mixed strategies for all strengths of hands. However, in doing so, it will not attempt to exploit your weaknesses. It will merely attempt to defend against all possible methods of attack.

### Configuration Options

Sparbot has a slider which allows you to specify how passive or aggressive it is. Passive play favors checking/calling and aggressive play favors betting/raising.

### References

> Approximating Game-Theoretic Optimal Strategies for Full-scale Poker.
> Darse Billings, Neil Burch, Aaron Davidson, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer, Terence Schauenberg, and Duane Szafron,
> Proceedings of IJCAI-03, (Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence), 2003.
> (Winner of the IJCAI / AAAI 2003 Distinguished Paper Award)
> `http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/Papers/IJCAI03.html`

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