Stud8 math

Aquarian · #1 11-25-2005, 08:13 AM

Brian Alspach, who used to write for Poker Digest, and now
Canadian Poker Player, has written his first article
on Stud8.

You can find it at the bottom of the
archive.

Maybe it's only for maths geeks [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
I like his stuff.

Aq.

blumpkin22 · #2 11-25-2005, 09:03 AM

Hopefully part 2 of that article will provide some actual analysis. It started to get interesting with the high/low chart and then...nothing.

Aaron W. · #3 11-25-2005, 01:53 PM

Is there any reason for the first line of his chart to have one number that's different from the rest? I think the program he used might have been flawed.

MikeBandy · #4 11-25-2005, 10:07 PM

[ QUOTE ]
Is there any reason for the first line of his chart to have one number that's different from the rest? I think the program he used might have been flawed.

[/ QUOTE ]
Brian Alspach claims to be fallible, but the errors he makes are few and far between. The number of straight flush hands decreases as the high card proceeds from a seven to an ace. There are 4,324 straight flushes in which the highest card is an ace. The computations are explained here: http://www.math.sfu.ca/~alspach/comp20/.