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- From: mzimmers@netcom.com (Michael Zimmers)
- Subject: Re: Rank of Hold`em Pocket Cards
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.181336.16966@netcom.com>
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- References: <17938@autodesk.COM>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:13:36 GMT
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- In article <17938@autodesk.COM> jamesr@Autodesk.COM (James Rowell) writes:
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- >In Hold`em Poker for Advanced Players, Malmuth and Sklansky rate
- >the opeing hands according to their own criteria. (It's great
- >but it'd be nice to see exactly how they derived the tables.)
- >
- >It seems to me that the hands could be ranked better by a purely
- >rigorous mathematical evaluation of all the opening hands.
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- Considering that Sklansky was a professional actuary and that Malmuth
- is a professional mathematician, what makes you think that wasn't how
- they created the tables in the first place??
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- If you've got a better idea for ranking pockets, we're all ears...
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