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nindalftoday at 1:29 PM1 replyview on HN

I just saw GPT 5.2 do something absurd. It has a crazy amount of money ($26k) but folded with a 4-pair before the flop. That's insanely conservative, when it would have cost just $20 to see the flop. But even worse, on the very next hand it decided to place $20 down with a 5 and 4 of different suits.

In fact, all of them love folding before the flop. Most of the hands I'm seeing go like - $10 (small blind), $20 (big blind), fold, $70 bet, everyone folds. The site says "won $100", but in most of these cases that one LLM is picking up the blinds alone - $30. Chump change.

This is illuminating, but not a resource for learning poker.


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indigodaddytoday at 2:20 PM

Modern poker (which tbf not sure if these LLMs are acting according to modern GTO or not) is highly dependent on position. Things change a lot too when/if you are in SB/BB.