Phil Rocquemore

Phil Rocquemore is the founder and Research Director of Rocquemore Research. He is a sovereign strategist, cognitive theorist and epistemic architect with a mission to extend the unique capacity of hyperintelligent humans operating in complex domains. Cardquant is his first independent project.

His formal education was in Theoretical Physics, and he earned degrees in that discipline at Oxford University, and at the University of Pennsylvania (as a Thouron scholar). He left institutional academia in order to focus on original paradigmatic research, anticipating that the bureaucratic and political culture of institutions would stifle his creative output.

His work is grounded in a lifelong autodidactic pursuit of a mastery that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries so as to better understand the structure of thought itself. To that end, he has studied epistemology, anticipatory systems, and reflexive dynamics with the same intensity he once brought to physics and international competitive bridge. His current interests include neuroplasticity, natural theology, and category theory.

This work lends itself naturally to the development of adaptive strategies in multi-agent adversarial environments with limited foresight, stochastic feedback, and shifting parameters.

And so my work found a natural testing ground in the card game that I love… the game of poker.

Why I built Cardquant

I left institutional academia because I wanted to work on my own original ideas, and I did not want the protective environment that I knew prevented academics from getting the brutal real-world feedback that is the ultimate test of their theories. Poker is a results-driven business, where anyone with the money can bring their framework to the table, and the best framework wins. In order to succeed in training elite poker players I have had to rapidly develop strong strategies for novel games and describe them in a way that human players can master. The latter is typically not as interesting for somebody whose main interest is in computation, but for me, whose main interest is in what human intelligence can do that artificial intelligence cannot, it’s fundamental. And, rather obviously, if I could not describe my strategy to human players, I wouldn’t be much use to them as a teacher.

For over a decade I have trained high stakes poker players from every continent (except Antarctica) by teaching my ‘Metastrategy’ conceptual framework, in conjunction with the proprietary training software, Pokermuscle, developed by the Cardquant team. The elite group of poker players that work with me have won millions of dollars at the tables in both live and online poker games.

My framework is most powerful in unsolved, high-dimensional game variants like 5cPLO, 6cPLO, Big O, and Short Deck, where an understanding of multiway, exploitative, and future play are all essential.

The software tools, theoretical expositions, and decision heuristics found at Cardquant were originally built not for mass consumption, but for testing hypotheses about high-dimensional thinking, human adaptation, and gaining and maintaining an edge in adversarial environments.

Where the work of other poker strategists ends, the work at Cardquant begins.

Join me here if you want to Win the Future…