Using Blackjack Hand Histories to Extrapolate Players’ Strategies: Creating a Novel Simulation Program to Inform Online and Land-based Gambling Risk Detection

Lead Investigator: Matthew Tom, PhD
Funder: International Center for Responsible Gaming
Timeline: 2023

The Division on Addiction, with funding from the International Center for Responsible Gaming through their Seed Grant program, will develop a blackjack simulation program and player bots to simulate actual casino blackjack and various kinds of blackjack players. This simulation will inform online and land-based future gambling risk detection algorithms.