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TWO-PERSON RED-AND-BLACK GAME WITH LOWER LIMIT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2010

May-Ru Chen
May-Ru Chen
Affiliation:
National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan, Republic of China E-mail: mayru@faculty.nsysu.edu.tw
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Abstract

In this article we consider a two-person red-and-black game with lower limit. More precisely, assume each player holds an integral amount of chips. At each stage, each player can bet an integral amount between a fixed positive integer ℓ and his possession x if x ≥ ℓ; otherwise, he bets all of his own fortune. He might win his opponent's stakes with a probability that is a function of the ratio of his bet to the sum of both players' bets and is called a win probability function. The goal of each player is to maximize the probability of winning the entire fortune of his opponent by gambling repeatedly with suitably chosen stakes. We will give some suitable conditions on the win probability function such that it is a Nash equilibrium for the subfair player to play boldly and for the superfair player to play timidly.

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Research Article
Information
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 119 - 133
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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