Poker Ping!
Thanks goes out to Tijeras_Slim for the Heads-up.
Posted on 03/25/2008 10:55:04 AM PDT by blam
Jeez, ya think?
“He found that students given some strategies to make decisions did better than those without the strategies.”
How can I say “DUH” louder on-line?
Whatever this study cost, I bet you’d find out the same thing for less money sitting at a low-limit poker table.
And we spent taxpayer funding to learn this? Wouldn’t it have been cheaper for him to go to Las Vegas and get his clock cleaned by some pros and skilled amateurs and not have to waste the time and money of a Federally Funded University?
Or, he could have just read a poker book to find this out and taken their word for it since most professional players have played over 1,000,000 hands of Texas Hold ‘Em and not just 100 or 720.
Heck, I don’t even look at my cards. I just sit on what I’m dealt, throw some chips in the pot and trust to luck!
Saturday night, my house, don't forget your wallet.
I believe he was making a point about winnings being taxed more based on the game being considered luck. Like Keno
“According to DeDonno, the person who takes home the winnings is likely to pay higher taxes when money is considered earned by luck.”
Tell that to the jackasses in Congress.
Wow - just wow. Somebody sponsored research to see if poker is a game of skill?? And then some news organization thought that the conclusion merited an article?? Oh man! Hope the sponsor and reporter next report to an online table where I’m playing.
Sure, a monkey could be a top poker pro over a short period of a few hands. But over time, the monkey will lose over and over and over.
ping
Over the long run, skill counts more than luck.
Poker Ping!
Thanks goes out to Tijeras_Slim for the Heads-up.
[Saturday night, my house, don’t forget your wallet.]
LOL! You beat me to it.
Pairs, paint and position.
There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a “flush.” It is enough to make one ashamed of one’s species.
- quoted in A Bibliography of Mark Twain, Merle Johnson
For me, playing poker is not really gambling. It was paying for lessons. ;~((
I resemble that remark.
When I play, which is not frequent and for low blinds only, some of the players do not know the meaning of a J-8 unsuited, apparently.
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