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Old 12-16-2004, 05:45 PM
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Default Re: Winners and Losers

I think it has to do with the way the sample is taken.

You only observe a table for a short time. During that time the losing players have almost as good a chance of winning as the winning players. Then the session is over and the next time you play you join a new table with mostly unknown players and repeat the process.

The result is that your database contains a large number of players but a small number of hands per player on average. I suspect that if you could track 1000 random players for 50,000 hands each that the winner/loser ratio would be much different.

Maybe someone smarter than me can cast this in a more mathematical light.

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