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    A player should use a mixed strategy when no pure strategy maximizes the player's utility against all opponent strategies.

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    • 1.A pure strategy seeks a single optimal course of action at each node as a best reply to others' actions.
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    • 2.A mixed strategy involves probabilistically selecting among several possible actions.
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    • 3.When no pure strategy maximizes utility against all opponent strategies, mixing is required to optimize utility.
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    • 1.Rational agents require reasons for action, and a randomizing device provides no reason to prefer one action over another.
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    • 2.A strategy chosen by deliberate randomization is not chosen by rational deliberation, undermining the normative force of 'should'.
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    • 3.Agents who act on reasons cannot coherently delegate choice to a lottery without abandoning the very rationality game theory presupposes.
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    • 1.Mixed strategy equilibria assume opponents know your mixing probabilities, but this epistemic condition rarely holds in real strategic interaction.
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    • 2.Without the mutual knowledge assumption, the mixed strategy prescription collapses into a claim about populations, not individual rational agents.
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    The games we’ve modeled to this point have all involved players choosing from amongst pure strategies, in which each seeks a single optimal course of action at each node that constitutes a best reply to the actions of others. Often, however, a player’s utility is optimized through use of a mixed strategy, in which she flips a weighted coin amongst several possible actions. (We will see later that there is an alternative interpretation of mixing, not involving randomization at a particular inform
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