Weekly Assignments

Ten short problem sets across the semester, each asking for one computed quantity and the working that produced it.

Due: 17 May 2027 · Weight: 40%

The brief#

Compute one quantity — a combo count, an equity, an EV, a Nash frequency, a Kelly fraction — and show the working that got you there.

Ten problem sets run across the semester, released after most lectures and due the following Monday at noon. Each one asks for a single number tied to that week’s material: how many combos are left in a range after the flop, what a hand’s equity is against a stated range, the EV of a call at a given price, the equilibrium bluffing frequency in a toy game, a fractional-Kelly stake. The number is checkable — there is a right answer — which is the point. An answer with no working attached is indistinguishable from a guess or a number copied from somewhere else, so it isn’t accepted as evidence you can do the calculation.

Your lowest two scores are dropped, which is meant to absorb a bad week without a policy conversation, not to make the other eight optional.

What you submit#

A short written response per problem set: the final answer clearly stated, and the steps that reach it (a formula applied, a hand-worked enumeration, a derivation) in enough detail that a marker can follow it without asking you to explain it in person.