doyle

mmmmmbrother · #1 10-03-2005, 08:14 PM

you know in the 2005 wsop he says when he was learning he dealt out 'thousands of hands to see the percentages'.

why oh god why

timprov · #2 10-03-2005, 08:23 PM

I'm thinking they probably didn't have twodimes.

#3 10-03-2005, 09:21 PM

I'm guessing you grew up never knowing life without a computer?

He, and a lot of other professional card players passed their down time studying. Looking for the angles. The best plays. The smartest bets. They'd deal out hand after hand after hand. Studying the variables, the possibilities.

mmmmmbrother · #4 10-03-2005, 09:36 PM

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I'm guessing you grew up never knowing life without multiplication of fractions on paper?

ihardlyknowher · #5 10-03-2005, 09:37 PM

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I'm guessing you grew up never knowing life with probability theory?

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Calculating the possibilities is much easier than dealing out the cards over and over again.

#6 10-03-2005, 10:05 PM

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I'm guessing you grew up never knowing life with probability theory?

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Whoa, guys. I saw an interview with DB and he was explaining what he did. Also, I know a couple of guys who used to live like DB at about the same time. They did the same thing.

The guys I know weren't statisticians, accountants, etc. They barely had HS. They dealt the cards.

DB went to college on a basketball scholarship. What he studied while he was there I don't know. Maybe he wasn't as knowledgeable about math, either.

I was only commenting about what I know. I didn't mean to piss you off. Sorry.

Greg J · #7 10-03-2005, 10:05 PM

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This is very true for most people. However, some people learn differently. By doing that manually it's likely that Doyle and others grasped the concept better than they could calculating odds out by hand like some of you are describing.

Beavis68 · #8 10-03-2005, 10:15 PM

probablility wasnt a popular form of math.

poker players were not the most educated lot either.

1800GAMBLER · #9 10-03-2005, 11:08 PM

math wasn't about back then.

#10 10-04-2005, 12:43 AM

the concept of "zero" had not been mastered yet.