stud probability coefficients?

[dandy_don]

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because I am Doc AZ.

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Well, welcome back.

I knew in one of your last posts you stated that you were going away for a while.

The forum has changed to what I believe to be a younger group of guys, mostly due to online games, than from the time you were regularly posting. I don't see this as a bad thing, because stud needs the younger players to get and keep the game growing. In the Tunica casinos, it seems like I'm always the youngest one at the table and I'm in my late 30's.

I'm sure it was before, but the stud forum is by far the best on 2+2; we are the best behaved and the best at trying to help improve each others game without the harshness many in The Zoo (Internet Forum) demonstrate. I hope you continue to participate and help create those of us that are willing, into great stud players.

The floor is yours Doc.

[Doctavian]

Dear Perit,

I wish that I could help right now. But I haven't reviewed the topic in a couple of years. I might have my notes in my copy of Mohamed's work on the mathematics of poker. If I find them I certainly will get them to you.

It is an interesting topic and those of us in the forum, who are interested in this topic, should do the math together.

Let's plan on making this one of the topics we want to investigate this month. I'll see if I can't dig out my copy of Otmer's work as well.

Most Sincerely,

[Doctavian]

Dear Dan,

Thanks for your kind note. I am very, very pleased to learn that the participants of the stud group still take pride in our forum. We had such a super group before. And we really did work to help each other master the game.

And in the process many of us became good friends.

One of the keys to the work we did before was that we all respected each other. For a forum to really produce we need to know that we can raise questions without being criticized. And we can critique each other with out being critical.

After reading only a few of your posts I am already looking forward to working with you.

Most Sincerely,

Doc AZ

[BTirish]

Doc AZ,

It's a pleasure to see you return to the forum. I'm a newbie to the forum and a relative newbie to the game; I'm one of those young guys who got into Internet poker, starting with hold'em. One day I decided to watch 7 card stud. I thought it was pretty intriguing, so I sat down, and I've been hooked ever since. Still playing low limits (usually 1/2) and doing pretty well. I've posted a few hands in the forum... usually places where I wanted confirmation of an error or to get feedback on a weird idea.

The last week has been pretty rough for me. I've even been chased back to the hold'em tables for some short runs. I've had to resist the urge to post several "you won't believe how I lost this one" type posts... but then I remembered that this is 7 stud, and everyone would believe how I lost it. But still, I can't help it: I love this game.

I look forward to reading your posts and hopefully learning a lot from your game. Welcome back!

[Doctavian]

Dear BT,

It is nice to hear from you. You have such a great attitude I know that (if you are willing to do the work required) that you are going to become a master player someday.


I was thinking about you (after reading your post) and I designed a stud question for you to ponder. Actually I hid several stud ideas in it for you to think about.

The question concerns going heads up against a Pounder.

I look forward to reading your reply.
Most sincerely,

Doc AZ