Are the low limit stud8B games on Party easy to beat?

[Andy B]

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Of course, if you make it incorrect for someone to call and he still calls, it is good for you.

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This is not necessarily true. If I had to guess, I would say that Morton's Theorem is more applicable to stud/8 than to hold'em.

[nate1729]

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Of course, if you make it incorrect for someone to call and he still calls, it is good for you.

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This is not necessarily true. If I had to guess, I would say that Morton's Theorem is more applicable to stud/8 than to hold'em.

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Indeed it's not necessarily true, but it often is, and if you're a competent player at the Party tables you'll often be on the moneymaking end of these bad calls.

What's Morton's Thm.?

--Nate

[Andy B]

Andrew Morton was a guy who posted on RGP a number of years ago. I'll try to find the original post, because it really is quite impressive. Basically, he said that Sklansky's Fundamental Theorem of Poker breaks down when there are more than two players (Sklansky says this as well, but doesn't go into detail). You can have a third player in the hand who is making a mistake by calling, but his presence still hurts you because it's really only helping the other guy.

Morton was a motorcycle enthusiast and was killed in a wreck a few years back. I think he was in his thirties.

[beset7]

Here's a RGP thread that has the original post as well as commentary from some other posters including Mike Caro I believe.

Link.