Forum: Beginners Questions
09-26-2005, 09:11 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 81
Re: COULD I HAVE GOTTEN AWAY FROM THIS HAND?
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because I think I know it to 10 decimal places /images/graemlins/frown.gif I think the next 2 are 39
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Actually, it's 35... You got the one right though... Why do I know...
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Forum: Probability
09-15-2005, 11:40 AM
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Replies: 44
Views: 283
Re: Anything that can happen will happen?
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Infinity is not a concept. Reality is a concept, a sub-set of infinity.
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I like that.
Anyway, what I meant is that 'reality' is not infinite. Just because reality...
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Forum: Poker Theory
09-15-2005, 11:08 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 82
Re: How do you play a flush draw correctly.
You seem to be talking about just a flush draw, but there are other situations that are better than your example.
You could have a pair with a flush draw. You could have a straight draw with your...
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Forum: Probability
09-15-2005, 10:37 AM
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Replies: 44
Views: 283
Re: Anything that can happen will happen?
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Indeed, I am also really concerned with reality... I am just not sure about where it starts, or where I am on this infinite sequence. And to say that my experience will be neccessarily(!)...
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Forum: Probability
09-15-2005, 10:14 AM
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Replies: 44
Views: 283
Re: Anything that can happen will happen?
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Is it true in probability theory that "anything that can happen will happen"?
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No.
Let's start with a coin flip example:
You flip a coin until it comes up heads....
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Forum: Texas Hold'em
09-15-2005, 09:46 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 110
Re: Advice needed
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Alternately you could come to Pacific Poker where you would be just another one of the plenty fish in the sea which I live off.
Going to Hawaii this weekend with the missus. Paid for...
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Forum: Poker Theory
09-15-2005, 09:30 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 180
Re: When your a losing player
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.5/1 is mathematically the same game as 1000/2000.
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I'm not sure if I agree with that completely.
You and I might be able to play the same way at any level, but many...
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Forum: Poker Theory
09-15-2005, 09:01 AM
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Replies: 112
Views: 459
Re: bot
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don't you think that when (i think in less then 10 years) a real good poker bot is made (say, winning at higher stakes limit) that isn't detected by poker site's there's no way the maker...
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Forum: Poker Theory
09-05-2005, 11:15 PM
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Replies: 112
Views: 459
Re: Poker Bot piece
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The statement you are referring to was meant as a silly little joke, hence the winking graemlin.
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You might have meant it as a joke, but it's true. There is a whole field...
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Forum: Poker Theory
09-05-2005, 06:50 PM
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Replies: 112
Views: 459
Re: Poker Bot piece
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If you're implying that that means that a human can't program a computer to play better than said human, that is false. One counterexample that immediately springs to mind: the checkers...
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Forum: Probability
09-04-2005, 06:08 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 92
Re: Anyone ever play the game 31?
Usually, especially with off the path games like this, you have to write it yourself.
Maybe this tutorial (http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/) will help.
Man, that was sarcastic... I'm...
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Forum: Poker Theory
09-04-2005, 05:21 PM
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Replies: 112
Views: 459
Re: Poker Bot piece
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Have you heard of quantum computing? The amount of calculations per second a quantum computer can handle are so vast that it can perform calculations that would take standard computers...
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Forum: Politics
09-04-2005, 12:29 PM
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Replies: 93
Views: 561
Re: Is GW Bush the Worst President Ever?
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This post was not clever, try again.
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This post was not clever. You could have at least used any amount of fact to discredit what he said; instead, you just said it wasn't...
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Forum: Probability
09-04-2005, 12:21 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 92
Re: Anyone ever play the game 31?
I played it once. And that was years ago. I barely remember what the game is about even after reading you post.
Well, I guess my post wasn't helpful, but I did answer your title question.
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Forum: Probability
08-31-2005, 07:08 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 81
Re: Poker Odds Calculator
I figured I'd try it out, just for the fun of it, and it's just horrible. Ok, that's not completely true, but the interface just sucks. If the interface was less about looks, and more about being...
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Forum: Poker Theory
08-30-2005, 05:07 PM
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Replies: 112
Views: 459
Re: Poker Bot piece
Once the algorithms the bot follows are figured out, all we have to do is induce them to fold. All you have to do is realize who the bots are.
I'm not sure exactly how they work, but if they are...
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Forum: Probability
08-27-2005, 03:43 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 84
Re: What are the chances...
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Just wondering what the chances are that with two people in the hand, and one completes an ace high flush on the river and the other completes a strait flush on the river. Thanks.
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Forum: Probability
08-26-2005, 10:23 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 126
Re: Pokerstars shuffle sources
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Yes, that's true. But then the measurement wouldn't anymore be random. The definition of the word includes the uncertainty.
I guess a more important point is that no algorithm is...
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Forum: Probability
08-26-2005, 09:58 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 126
Re: Pokerstars shuffle sources
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I don't think so. See random.org (http://www.random.org/essay.html) for starters.
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I'm aware of using noise and radiation to generate random numbers (I've never heard about...
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Forum: Poker Theory
08-26-2005, 09:45 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 434
Re: We need a new word for \"gambling\"
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Actually the Google definition answered the question of why poker is called gambling and investing in stocks isn't.
We use the term gambling for making a wager on a GAME or CONTEST,...
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Forum: Probability
08-26-2005, 09:22 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 126
Re: Pokerstars shuffle sources
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All PRG's have idiosycracies that make them non-random. ALL. As far as mouse movement, it will have the physical constraints of the window bounds that adds to the idiosychracy. I believe...
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Forum: Poker Theory
08-24-2005, 09:56 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 434
Re: We need a new word for \"gambling\"
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My girlfriend likes to call poker "gambling". I like to think of it as "a skill game played for money".
When I use the word "gambling", I think of the house having an edge (like our...
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Forum: Poker Theory
08-21-2005, 04:07 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 178
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Forum: Beginners Questions
08-21-2005, 02:26 AM
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Replies: 47
Views: 179
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Forum: Beginners Questions
08-21-2005, 02:11 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 69
Re: Goin crazy twice 100
You guys are all jerks...
Anyway, if you put all of those posts into a colander and let all the sarcasm drain (you might have to rinse them a little bit too, they are really covered), there is a...
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