NYT: "Ante Up at Dear Old Princeton: Online Poker Is a Campus Draw" - Page 2

_2000Flushes · #11 03-14-2005, 01:25 PM

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Wow what a genius. There's nothing to calculate. You simply memorize the odds. 220 to 1.

Color me unimpressed with this "genius".

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Don't you mean 222 to 1?

-2kF

StevieG · #12 03-14-2005, 01:48 PM

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Wow what a genius. There's nothing to calculate. You simply memorize the odds. 220 to 1.

Color me unimpressed with this "genius".

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Don't you mean 222 to 1?

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No, he doesn't.

scrub · #13 03-14-2005, 03:25 PM

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I feel for ya--that's going to be me in two years. I'm sure Mike Sandberg must be working hard on his thesis while he 3 tables 15/30.

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For the record, Mike is a Politics major. I'm pretty sure you're allowed to write your name and "Thesis" on a cocktail napkin and hand it in.

He's also one of the most talented players I've ever met.

scrub

kem · #14 03-14-2005, 03:38 PM

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"He speaks in poker parlance as if everyone understands it and can innately calculate the odds of drawing pocket aces (two, face down)"

Wow what a genius. There's nothing to calculate. You simply memorize the odds. 220 to 1.

Color me unimpressed with this "genius".

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That's funny, because I didnt know what it was offhand, but I could tell you that the odds are 1/13*3/51

edtost · #15 03-14-2005, 03:43 PM

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For the record, Mike is a Politics major. I'm pretty sure you're allowed to write your name and "Thesis" on a cocktail napkin and hand it in.

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Pinkin' it up!!

And you forgot the honor pledge...

edtost · #16 03-14-2005, 03:44 PM

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For the record, Mike is a Politics major. I'm pretty sure you're allowed to write your name and "Thesis" on a cocktail napkin and hand it in.

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also, getting an "A" on said thesis would probably require a ream of blank paper stapled underneath said cocktail napkin...

scrub · #17 03-14-2005, 03:49 PM

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Pinkin' it up!!

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That's really a Ryan line.

But awesome nonetheless.

scrub

_2000Flushes · #18 03-14-2005, 04:30 PM

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"He speaks in poker parlance as if everyone understands it and can innately calculate the odds of drawing pocket aces (two, face down)"

Wow what a genius. There's nothing to calculate. You simply memorize the odds. 220 to 1.

Color me unimpressed with this "genius".

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That's funny, because I didnt know what it was offhand, but I could tell you that the odds are 1/13*3/51

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That's okay. Dead didn't know either.

-2kF

kem · #19 03-14-2005, 05:25 PM

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"He speaks in poker parlance as if everyone understands it and can innately calculate the odds of drawing pocket aces (two, face down)"

Wow what a genius. There's nothing to calculate. You simply memorize the odds. 220 to 1.

Color me unimpressed with this "genius".

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That's funny, because I didnt know what it was offhand, but I could tell you that the odds are 1/13*3/51

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That's okay. Dead didn't know either.

-2kF

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Yeah, honestly I'm not sure what the value of knowing that is. If there's an ace on the board, or in your hand, those aren't the odds. And if someone caps pre-flop and bets into a ragged flop, I'd bet money the odds are no longer 220:1.. So I'm not really sure what that tells you. The ability to calculate odds seems much more useful..

_2000Flushes · #20 03-14-2005, 06:22 PM

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"He speaks in poker parlance as if everyone understands it and can innately calculate the odds of drawing pocket aces (two, face down)"

Wow what a genius. There's nothing to calculate. You simply memorize the odds. 220 to 1.

Color me unimpressed with this "genius".

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That's funny, because I didnt know what it was offhand, but I could tell you that the odds are 1/13*3/51

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That's okay. Dead didn't know either.

-2kF

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Yeah, honestly I'm not sure what the value of knowing that is. If there's an ace on the board, or in your hand, those aren't the odds. And if someone caps pre-flop and bets into a ragged flop, I'd bet money the odds are no longer 220:1.. So I'm not really sure what that tells you. The ability to calculate odds seems much more useful..

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Haha. My only point was that the odds are 221 to 1, not 220 to 1. It's a small difference, but it's something Dead should get right if he's going to be so critical.

-2kF