Which college math course would best help my poker game?

[kgrad5]

[img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] a course on counting isnt about counting small numbers, its about counting the number of different ways to do something and stuff like that. for example, how many different ways can you make a flush? thats a counting problem. or prove that in every five cards there has to be atleast 2 of 1 suit (direct pigeon hole principle). it has lots of applications to poker.

[bunky9590]

Statistics 101

[Cleveland Guy]

Economics 101 - Law of Supply and Demand

Pyschology 101 - What makes people act the way they do

Stats 101- Basic probability

[Blarg]

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But on the other hand... put a LAG on a table full of weak-tight-passive players, and I think the LAG could take all their money

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Then you can be wrong about everything, like economists famously are.

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Pyschology 101 - What makes people act the way they do


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Then you can be right about everything, like people who have just taken their first psychology class famously are.

[AQheartbreak]

How about psychology classes? I am interested myself.

[threeonefour]

bayes theorum is covered in the first half of any self respecting intro stat course. so if thats too advanced you might be out of luck...

i would suggest probability theory, combinatorics, a mid level econ class (economics can teach you a lot about costs in poker; oppurtunity costs, sunk costs etc) or a vanilla statistical analysis class would be fine as well.


oh yea, accounting might be a good class too. its not really a math class and i haven't taken many accounting classes but i would think it would help with your money management which is half the battle in poker.

[doughhater]

Folding 101

[Moozh]

I'd strongly consider looking into Advanced Fourier and Topology. They should be interesting classes that help you learn how to divide small numbers by 46 and 47.

[BeerMoney]

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stochastic models

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I would agree with this suggestion more than any other. However, it would be a pretty tough class for most. But, then again, so isn't poker.

[Vannek]

amazon.com