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Geeks and Poker?
Best ID Ever! asks: "Poker, a fascinating intersection of math, game theory, and observation of human behavior, is currently exploding in popularity due to televised high-stakes tournaments such as the World Poker Tour and Binion's 2003 World Series of Poker. Many of today's top professional players have nerdly roots such as Mathematicians, chess prodigies, or backgammon champions. A few pros, including 2000 champion Chris Ferguson, even used to play poker in the IRC poker community. This year's World Series final event, which began Saturday and lasts through the week, drew 2600 participants, more than three times the number of participants in 2003. How many Slashdot readers play poker, and what do you think of Poker's upswing?"
Haha...the classic poker excuse:
"Poker is a game of skill, the same people do well in the world series of poker every year"
Sure there is skill...but dont forget about the relatively high randomness factor.
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
I used to play poker but, I played 1 to many times where I lost my pants literally and gave up.
That is SO not true...
Look here folks, there are two sorts of poker losers: those who are addicted to the game and keep playing (and often losing their shirts) over and over, without telling anybody about it, and those who genuinely got had over one party too many, but weren't addicted and so turned away from the game forever, but they're not proud of it so they keep the story to themselves.
I say the parent poster is playing a pretty strong +5 karma-whore hand here...
I know that there's mathematical ways of going about games.
I don't like to use them, unless I can intuit them.
Sure, mathematics can tell you poker odds. But I think it's much more fun if you try to feel the correct decision.
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