project to collect handhistories

[BradleyT]

And if you need any free help with your form submission (which allows people to submit without filling in any fields and tells them thanks) give a holler, I do asp.net web forms 8 hours a day and I'm a Top 100 poster on www.asp.net forums [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[rhizome]

I also got "The document contains no data" error while trying to upload.

[Tapin]

No offense, dchandler321, but being suspcious of the motives I went looking for links from anything else associated with Dr. Levitt back to the pokernomics.com website (the blog on freakonomics, his U of Chicago site, etc). I didn't find any, so I've emailed Dr. Levitt directly to ask him if he's really associated with the project, or if they're just using his name without his knowledge.

If anyone else is interested, I'll post here if/when I hear back from him.

(If the project is in fact associated with Dr. Levitt, I'll be contributing a fair amount of hands; if not, I'm somewhat less interested [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] )

[bigalt]

that's good thinking, but i'd have to give props to anyone who devised a scheme convoluted enough to involve an economist's name and offer free t-shirts!

[cbfair]

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that's good thinking, but i'd have to give props to anyone who devised a scheme convoluted enough to involve an economist's name and offer free t-shirts!

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lol

[djack]

The offer really is legit. Levitt posted about it on his blog awhile back.

[Tapin]

Looks good to me.

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My involvement is for real. [dchandler321] is
a U of C undergrad, who works as my RA. My goal
is to do exactly what we say at pokernomics.com.
The only reason we haven't linked it to freakonomics.com
yet is our page for doing downloads has been balking
at transferring really big data sets like yours and
we don't want to waste people's time. I was told
by my tech guy it would be fixed by tomorrow.

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[bigalt]

nice. don't tell him he could get extra funding for the government by turning in people's winnings figures to match to their 1040s.

[djack]

I'm considering doing this. I'll send them a few thousand hands from some low limit games and see what I get back. I'm not too hopeful that I'll get back anything constructive, but curiosity kills this cat.

I do want to know what kind of confidentiality policy this will have, though I'm not likely to send this in under my real name anyway.

Furthermore, does this Chicago undergrad know anything about poker? Does Levitt?

[StacysMomsDad]

Sounds like this project could easily be turned into bot making, and that is -EV