Pokernomics.com: A Major Project Collecting Hand Histories

[dchandler321]

University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt is researching Texas Hold'Em poker and online gambling. We have created a webpage where you can go for more information about the project as well as upload your hand histories Pokernomics.

Anyone who submits 10,000+ of their own hands will receive a free analysis of their play. People submitting more than 30,000 hands will receive an analysis and a signed copy of his New York Times bestselling book "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything". If you submit a hand history with more than 50,000 hands you will also receive a Freakonomics t-shirt.

[Nottom]

Do you accept PT Databases or do you want the actual HHs?

[dchandler321]

Poker Tracker is our preferred format. Email support@pokernomics.com if you have any other formats.

[microbet]

But you don't like the idea of datamining, right?

And, Citanul, you don't like the idea of spam, right?

[Nottom]

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But you don't like the idea of datamining, right?

And, Citanul, you don't like the idea of spam, right?

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I don't like datamining, but I do it anyway. I'd rather it not be so stupidly easy to do.

[Freudian]

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But you don't like the idea of datamining, right?

And, Citanul, you don't like the idea of spam, right?

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This is for academic purposes and not for commercial purposes. At least they claim it is.

[wuwei]

Sure, it's spam, but it's for an interesting cause and it will save me the expense of buying his book. I'm not going to complain.

[Ixnert]

It is, for the record, a very interesting book. I briefly entertained the possibility of seeing if Levitt needed graduate assistants; I've been looking to go back to school anyway. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[The Yugoslavian]

Is this an academic study? Will the results be made public? What is the actual hypotheses and/or trends that will be looked for?

Yugoslav

[microbet]

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Our goal is to understand the factors that make players succesful at poker.

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Yeah, it's academic, but the purpose seems pretty commercial. They say they won't sell data, but not that they won't sell the conclusions.

I guess it will be an interesting book.