02-19-2002, 12:04 PM
Number one: On page 54, Warren writes: "If you play fifteen hours a week for twenty years, you're going to be dealt about 625,000 hands. You'll be dealt Ah, Ad more than 2,800 times and you'll get 7s,2d more than 9,000 times." Okay, forty hands per hour X 15 X 52 X 20= 624,000: close enough. 624,0001326 =470.6 Mulitiply this figure by 6 and you get 2823, the number of pocket aces. But 470.6 multiplied by 16 yields only 7529.6 seven-deuces. Isn't it terribly obvious that the ratio of AA to 72 must be 6 to 16, or 1 to 2 23? How did he arrive at that figure of 9,000?