Archive for April 2009
My 42nd birthday
About one minute ago, I turned 42 on Facebook. Not really, I use a "fake birthday" with all online services, since many parts of the financial world use your birthday as an identifier, but my birthday is in May, so close enough. Thank you. I wrote a long post about how the world has turned…
Read MoreCombinatorics in Texas Hold’em Limit Poker
Combinatorics is the mathematical technique of enumerating and analyzing combinations of objects. If you've ever had a pair of pocket Aces preflop and had an opponent bet his whole stack against you, you did a form of this analysis in your head. Presumably your reasoning went something like this:"I have the best hand. Any two…
Read MoreHeads Up Poker Hand Selection
So for my Internet poker practice I’ve been almost exclusively playing heads up limit Texas Hold’em lately. I don’t claim to be particularly good at it yet. I’ve written before about my efforts to beat sparbot, an AI that plays a perfectly balanced game theory variant of Hold’em, but playing a real people online is…
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