03-04-2002, 05:26 PM
To David Sklansky
From your lost essays, Finding Exact Odds, published in the Card Player about ten years ago you stated the following:
A shortcut method that gets you the right price even quicker is to multiply the number of fifth street wins times the number of of fourth street cards that would result in that number of wins.
In this example:
2 X 43 = 86; 3 X 4 = 12; 1 X 0 = 0; 9 X 10 = 90;
30 X 2 = 60
Add these results to get 248. This number you divide by 1980. The answer is 248/1980 or 12.53 percent. The exact odds are 1732 to 248.
My question is, how was "1980" derived?
If you would like a complete copy of the article, I will be happy to send it to you.
H. S. Rosenblatt
haros@concentric.net
From your lost essays, Finding Exact Odds, published in the Card Player about ten years ago you stated the following:
A shortcut method that gets you the right price even quicker is to multiply the number of fifth street wins times the number of of fourth street cards that would result in that number of wins.
In this example:
2 X 43 = 86; 3 X 4 = 12; 1 X 0 = 0; 9 X 10 = 90;
30 X 2 = 60
Add these results to get 248. This number you divide by 1980. The answer is 248/1980 or 12.53 percent. The exact odds are 1732 to 248.
My question is, how was "1980" derived?
If you would like a complete copy of the article, I will be happy to send it to you.
H. S. Rosenblatt
haros@concentric.net