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- From: mzimmers@netcom.com (Michael Zimmers)
- Newsgroups: rec.gambling
- Subject: Re: Rank of Hold`em Pocket Cards
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.225446.28776@netcom.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:54:46 GMT
- Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Nov18.225446.28776
- References: <1992Nov17.181336.16966@netcom.com> <17952@autodesk.COM>
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- In article <17952@autodesk.COM> jamesr@Autodesk.COM (James Rowell) writes:
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- >mzimmers@netcom.com (Michael Zimmers) writes:
-
- >> Considering that Sklansky was a professional actuary and that Malmuth
- >> is a professional mathematician, what makes you think that wasn't how
- >> they created the tables in the first place??
-
- >They *may* have used such tables, but if so it seems to me that they
- >have adjusted them in the book according to how strong they feel
- >certain pockets are IN PRACTICE.
- >
- > For example
- > Group 1 has AA, KK, QQ, JJ,
- > Group 2 has TT
- > Group 3 has 99
- > Group 4 has 88 (third in the list)
- > etc.
- >
- >There are other examples of how unevenly distributed certain
- >classifications of cards are, and it just doesn't *seem* to me
- >that they have been arranged according to a purely mathematical
- >evaluation. Also since the ordering of the hands in the tables
-
- This statement, along with the reference to Steve Jacobs' posting,
- leads me to believe that you'd rank hands solely on their chances
- of being the best hand. BIG mistake (IMHO). Consider JTs and 99 -
- both group 3 hands. One has a higher probability of winning, but
- the other, when it wins, has a better chance to win a larger pot.
- These two factors offset one another, and the EV of each hand is
- close enough to group them together.
-
- And as Sklansky is so fond of saying, the object of poker is not
- to win pots, but to win money. So, using a formal table of winning
- probability is a flawed way to rank starting hands.
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