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Optimal Truco

This is solved heads-up truco paulista. For a selection of spots, it shows a way to play that can’t be exploited, worked out by a machine playing billions of hands.

Contents
Part I

The solve, and how to read it

What a solution is, how its charts are drawn, and how far they can be trusted.

  1. The rules we solvei
  2. What solving meansii
  3. Reading a chartiii
  4. Rangesiv
  5. The four viewsv
  6. Lossless abstractionsvi
  7. Writing a spot downvii
  8. How far to trust itviii
Part II

The player's handbook

What the solutions teach: the hand of eleven, the opening lead, the truco from both sides, and the habits that cost the most.

  1. The hand of elevenix
  2. Opening leadsx
  3. When to raise, when to let goxi
  4. The habits that cost the mostxii
Back matter

Reference

  1. The solutions, by the numbersxiii
  2. Glossaryxiv