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Old 10-09-2005, 04:31 PM
SheetWise SheetWise is offline
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Default Re: Wealth creation in zero sum games

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In any case, it doesn't really matter how you classify the rake, because from a game theory perspective you still have to account for the rake effect either way!

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My thinking is that in a raked game, the pie is shrinking. In the end, the sum of players gains and losses must add up to less than zero. A negative sum game.

While poker has always been the primary example of a zero sum game -- I understand the example to be a home game.
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