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To: blam

“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.


3 posted on 03/25/2008 11:00:04 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: swain_forkbeard

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.


9 posted on 03/25/2008 11:23:29 AM PDT by rockvillem
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To: swain_forkbeard

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


16 posted on 03/25/2008 12:01:41 PM PDT by Scarlet Pimpernel
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