Two Plus Two Older Archives  

Go Back   Two Plus Two Older Archives > Search Forums
FAQ Community Calendar Today's Posts Search

Showing results 1 to 25 of 57
Search took 0.01 seconds.
Search: Posts Made By: scarr
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 10-17-2005, 07:49 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 36
Posted By scarr
Tournament Slope Visualization

This recent topic:

Burningyen Compares Tournament Structures at the Major Sites...
Forum: Internet Gambling 09-27-2005, 04:09 PM
Replies: 138
Views: 436
Posted By scarr
Re: poker sites \"juicing\" the game

Even with a million hands you cannot prove it one way or the other. I could rig a site so that there was no way you could catch me, unless there was such a thing as Verifiable Card Decks...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 09-20-2005, 08:13 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 51
Posted By scarr
Re: Anyone good w/ Excel?

1) When you select your data range, select the entire column instead of a range of cells. Click on the Letter for the Column , "E" for example. It will use the first non-blank cell as the name of the...
Forum: Internet Gambling 09-13-2005, 09:43 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 99
Posted By scarr
Re: Proposed solution to perception of online poker being rigged

[ QUOTE ]
Another group just thinks that a computer-shuffled deck always comes out kinda funny or 'less random' than a hand-shuffled deck. The cards just aren't as true (supposedly) no matter their...
Forum: Internet Gambling 09-12-2005, 11:55 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 99
Posted By scarr
Re: Proposed solution to perception of online poker being rigged

[ QUOTE ]
There are millions of people playing online poker... the number is expected to rise to 6+ million by 2006... the number of people who are not playing because they think poker is rigged,...
Forum: Internet Gambling 09-12-2005, 11:40 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 99
Posted By scarr
Re: Proposed solution to perception of online poker being rigged

[ QUOTE ]

First, there is nothing in your proposal to ensure that all decks received from the trusted party actually get used. This allows an unethical site to pick-and-choose from the valid...
Forum: Internet Gambling 09-12-2005, 05:26 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 99
Posted By scarr
Proposed solution to perception of online poker being rigged

One thing that is keeping Online Poker from gaining more success is the perception some people get that it is rigged. The very thing that makes poker such an entertaining game (randomness), is one...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-13-2005, 01:34 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 104
Posted By scarr
Re: Consciousness/Souls/Animals

Julian Jaynes wrote an excellent book on this subject: "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind"

In it he points to Wernicke's Area of the brain as beeing necessary for...
Forum: Books and Publications 08-12-2005, 02:05 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 360
Posted By scarr
Re: Mason: 2+2 Book Binding changes in 2005?

Fedex Kinkos will do a nice spiral binding on them for
about $6 each. I did it to both of the HOH books and
they are much easier to read now. I can open to a
page and lay it next to my computer...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-10-2005, 02:02 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 237
Posted By scarr
Re: Little Evidence =Evidence?

I liked this quote:

[ QUOTE ]
"Sallie McFague, in Models of God, argues that religious thinking requires a rethinking of the ways in which religious language employs metaphor. Religious...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-09-2005, 08:42 AM
Replies: 81
Views: 287
Posted By scarr
Re: Are Astrology Devotees SubHuman?

[ QUOTE ]
Again people not knowing what they are even talking about. You ever do any research into this or just laugh it off.

[/ QUOTE ]

I must admit you are correct, I laughed it off at...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-05-2005, 04:25 PM
Replies: 81
Views: 287
Posted By scarr
Re: Are Astrology Devotees SubHuman?

People who believe in astrology gather at conventions where they have little booths where people will take a picture of your "aura" with the Kirlian Aura Camera...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 07-12-2005, 09:36 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 31
Posted By scarr
G6Dragon ID\'d at WSOP ME

I've been watching G6Dragon on Stars for the last year. Never could figure out who he really is until he showed up near the top of the chip leader board. Jon Lane plays under G6Dragon at Stars.
...
Forum: Televised Poker 07-11-2005, 03:20 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 196
Posted By scarr
Re: My hatred for Greg Raymer

I haven't seen many of his hands, but this attitude towards him at the table, might be the reason for his success through day 2 of WSOP 2005.

-scarr
Forum: Televised Poker 07-08-2005, 02:19 AM
Replies: 157
Views: 595
Posted By scarr
Re: yes. moneymaker plays Friday...

More impressed with what appears to be Erin Ness at behind you.
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 07-05-2005, 02:01 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 404
Posted By scarr
Re: An observation about Religion....

Religion is but one belief we get from our parents. There are many others, like you need to make money to survive, or follow the rules and you will be OK.

Beliefs come from those you trust. It's...
Forum: Books and Publications 07-02-2005, 06:00 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 82
Posted By scarr
Typo on page 253 of HOH II

This took a little work to figure out the correction, but it was immediately obvious something was wrong.

On page 253, the diagram of Hand 10-7 is incorrect.

3 corrections:

1) "You" are "A"...
Forum: Televised Poker 06-30-2005, 10:13 AM
Replies: 46
Views: 283
Posted By scarr
Re: Why is Shana off the show?

They were wrong when they said it was the "Hole Card Cam" which made poker popular. Shana is the reason for the poker boom. Mark my words...the bubble has burst. Next years WSOP ME will have less...
Forum: Televised Poker 04-07-2005, 02:52 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 696
Posted By scarr
Re: 11:38 PM and Nobody Has Anything To Say About Aruba??

[ QUOTE ]
This is the third year in a row where wpt has had to blatantly blur out the UB.com logo. why does the wpt keep on letting ub put their logo on the table if they are going to blur it out?...
Forum: Software 03-30-2005, 05:39 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 79
Posted By scarr
Independent audit of poker site card dealing

Has anybody done an analysis of the cards dealt on the online sites? I constantly hear people claiming these sites are rigged, and have seen the sites certify the use good shuffle algorithms, but has...
Forum: Software 03-26-2005, 09:45 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 80
Posted By scarr
Re: is there room for a better program than Pokertracker?

You never said what your major is, so I will assume it is Computer Science. I got my BS in Computer Science in 1986. Never went for a Masters or Phd.

As for a thesis in poker/software, I have some...
Forum: Software 03-21-2005, 06:30 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 148
Posted By scarr
Re: Will Party think this is a bot?

If I was trying to discover a bot, I would look for inhumanly consistant timing of actions or "mouse clicks."

-scarr
Forum: Software 03-21-2005, 03:36 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 144
Posted By scarr
Re: Deciphering the limp re-raise with statistics

There are a bunch more statistics one could extract from that Poker Tracker database. Looks like the program uses MS Access for it's database. Anyone know the schema? Is it public?

I didn't see...
Forum: Software 03-18-2005, 03:43 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 372
Posted By scarr
Re: Whatever happened to the mucked hole card software?

The only site I know which shows mucked showdown cards is UB. Do these sites show all mucked cards or just those mucked at showdown?

Also, UB is the only one I have seen which will provide a...
Forum: News, Views, and Gossip 03-03-2005, 05:08 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 219
Posted By scarr
Re: Negreanu poker journal about the 4k/8k game

I read this and I am having a hard time believing it is true. I don't know any reason why Daniel would be stretching the truth here, but these things did go through my mind when I read it:

1)...
Showing results 1 to 25 of 57

 
Forum Jump

All times are GMT -4. The time now is 01:22 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.