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- From: jamesr@Autodesk.COM (James Rowell)
- Newsgroups: rec.gambling
- Subject: Re: Rank of Hold`em Pocket Cards
- Message-ID: <17953@autodesk.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:24:44 GMT
- References: <keith-171192143318@kip-16.taligent.com>
- Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA
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- keith@taligent.com (Keith Rollin) writes:
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- > I'm not sure that ranking the pocket cards is possible or feasible.
- > Position plays SUCH a large part of the game that you'd probably have to
- > generate a chart for each position, also taking into account the number of
- > folders, callers, and raisers before you. Also, because so many cards are
- > visible and common, bluffing and psychology as well as the tightness of the
- > game are significant factors.
-
- M&S's table *is* a ranking of the pocket cards, so it is possible and
- feasible. M&S's tables don't take the issues you raise into account,
- they discuss those issues in the chapters following the presentation
- of the table. However what you say is very important of course, I'm
- not sure that it relates to actually deriving the table.
-
- > Personally, I don't think a "more accurate" chart would be useful. Malmuth
- > and Sklansky have given me what I needed with their table -- a rough
- > guideline of what can be played and when.
-
- Perhaps you are right. Maybe I'm getting too picky. But we're all
- looking for that little extra edge no? Not only that but perhaps
- questioning the GODS-M&S will help me to learn more about the game
- than if I didn't ask the questions.
-