According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, game theory is the ‘study of the ways in which strategic interactions among rational players produce outcomes with respect to the preferences (or utilities) of those players’. The main purpose of this strategy series will be to define, explain and expand upon the prior sentence within the context of game theory’s application to poker.

I will be limiting my analysis to tournaments as they, by nature, reward the ‘survival of the fittest’. Believe it or not, the science of biology is intimately tied to game theory and was integral to the development of some of its most fundamental elements.