Mathematics of Poker - 2006 release

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where is Sklanky's ranking of smartest poker players?
can you send a link to the post?


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I cannot provide a link and I don't feel like using the search function. I can, however, answer your question, by and large.

Here's Sklansky's list of the Ten Smartest Poker Players:

1. William Chen
2. Mark Weitzman
3. Howard Lederer
4. Jim Geary
5. Chris Ferguson
6. Ed Miller
7. Tom Weideman
8. Jimmy Warren
9. Barry Greenstein
10. Paul Phillips

Some of his comments:
"...it isn't easy to displace them in my mind. Among the names that would have a chance are Adam Bloch, El Diablo, Bill Bertram, Abdul Jalib, Gus Hansen, Dan Hansen, Patri Friedman, David Kopp, Huck Seed, Dan Harrington, Louie Landale, Jimmy Jimmy and two longshot possibilities of James Woods and Ben Affleck. I'm sure I have forgotten some obvious ones. Also I'm not considering those who don't really play much such as Brian Alspach, Paul Pudaite, and Jerrod A."

Other posters in the thread mostly agreed with these picks and added a few others:
Sasha Schwartz
Marilyn von Savant
Andy Beal
Allen Cunningham
Negreneau, Chip Reese, Raymer, and Ivey

I hope that satisfies your inquiry.

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That's great! thanks!

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he posted somewhere around XMas last year (I remember he mentioned that it was kind of a "in the mood to be naughty this season" as his reason why he decided to post his '10 smartest people in poker') .

So if you look in the archives in December in the WPT forum I believe you can find it.

I'm search-function-challenged so you're on your own from there. It was a pretty long thread where some posters offered others and David, I believe, defended some of his choices. Interesting stuff....although most of that has already been repeated here.




To the original topic...between the Sk;ansky/Miller NL book and this new book from chen I think we're all set for some good reading in 2006.

If we get Raymer's book too and maybe HOH3 then all the better.