Optimal policies for playing variable wager HI-LO

J M Freeman ()
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J M Freeman: University of Manchester

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2009, vol. 60, issue 1, 79-83

Abstract: Abstract Use of the HI-LO procedure by the gaming industry is ubiquitous—hence playing strategies of interest to gamblers and machine providers alike. Players’ tactics necessarily depend on goals being pursued and consistent with these, a variety of schemes ranging from the ‘aggressive’ to the ‘timid’ have evolved. Characteristics of the some of the best known of these—as far as they are applicable to a variable wager version of the HI-LO routine—are considered and contrasted. Of interest, results for a relatively risk-aversive scheme, played over a finite number of rounds are reconciled with those obtained asymptotically when maximizing capital growth is the priority.

Keywords: gaming; risk; stochastic; Markov processes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602520

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