Chaos theory + Seat selection

[ElSapo]

i do think the distribution does change if you change seats.

Yes, it may change from what it would have been had you not changed seats, but GuyOnTilt nailed it -- it isn't useful b/c you can't predict either way. Just knowing something changed doesn't help if you don't know what it changed from, nor to.

[Pockets]

Yes, of course we know that seats #3 & #7 at a 9 player table
are the best seats.

[SirRaleigh]

>> we all know, some seats are better than others, and they all get their share of cold spells.

I don't agree with this at all. One hand has no useful measureable effect on any other hand, unless a) you are able model in your head the mucking and shuffeling process. So the concept of being 'hot' upto a certain point has no relationship to that seat remaining 'hot'.

[PAUL-IN]

let's say there's a holdem game, 10 handed, playing for 24 hours. if you were to tally each seats winning hands for a session, one seat would be "better" than the other. that "better" seat is simply a statistical deviation from the norm. likewise, that "worse" seat is also a statistical deviation. i did not mean to say that a "hot" seat tends to remain hot.

please correct me: when you deal with many short sessions, resulting in small statistical samplings, the deviations are much larger than if one were to play a 20,000 hour game?

[SirRaleigh]

Yes, the deviations are much larger than if you played in a 20,000 hour game, but who cares because at any given point the information can not be used to predict future results so any talk changing seats or whatever is just silly. I would argue that after 24 hours of limit poker that the results of peoples money have less to do with card irrgularites and more to with player skill and the location of skilled and unskilled people to each other.

[PAUL-IN]

ty, raleigh. i'll come up with more interesting topics when we hold our weekly NLHE home game.

[SirRaleigh]

I will look forward to that.

[GuyOnTilt]

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But so will hitting the check or fold button one time half a second slower than you normally do.

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Please elaborate.