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Old 07-25-2005, 07:08 PM
Slim Pickens Slim Pickens is offline
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Default Re: Playing as a \"Team\" to reduce variance ?

This is a very bad idea. It works from a mathematical standpoint, but absolutely fails from a social one. I highly doubt you could ever find a group of poker players able to agree upon (and stick to) an objective evaluation of talent for distribution of profit. Think about it.
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Old 07-25-2005, 07:19 PM
Sponger15SB Sponger15SB is offline
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Default Re: Playing as a \"Team\" to reduce variance ?

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Has anybody thought about (or done it, for that matter) of pooling results with two or three other players with whom trust is not an issue and who all feel that their play is roughly equivalent from a skill standpoint.

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Yeah me and like 2-3 other guys do this, we all join the same SNG and then we create a chat room through AIM and tell eachother our hole cards and when to fold so we can build up our chips around the bubble if one is short stacked.

We usually lock up at least 2 ITMs this way. Its a great way to reduce variance.
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Old 07-25-2005, 07:23 PM
Quicksilvre Quicksilvre is offline
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Default Re: Playing as a \"Team\" to reduce variance ?

As long as the cash is dealt out equally, and no one gets greedy, it could work. I predict that it all ends in tears.
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Old 07-25-2005, 07:44 PM
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Default Re: Playing as a \"Team\" to reduce variance ?

There are a lot of teams that do this for blackjack. On www.bj21.com, a poster named DD' has described a good system that takes into account playing time, results, and a host of other things. The math is easy, it's the people part that is hard. Should work in theory, though.
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Old 07-25-2005, 07:55 PM
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Default Re: Playing as a \"Team\" to reduce variance ?

I think to really work something out you would have to have some close relatives or family friends that play for similar stakes, but who has anything like that?
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