Lee Jones Flawed Thinking

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Even without reading LJ's article I don't find your argument too convincing. You can obviously list some point that he didn't consider. So what. That's the nature of research. More and more details are added and neither LJ nor you will ever have the last word.
Even if he were wrong here I find his writing generally more colorful then yours. While you wrestle trying to get your points through he is able to put his ideas into perspective and while talking about poker relates it to the world around it.

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Check out the other thread started by Mason. Whether we agree or disagree with the tone of David's or Mason's post, I think they made their point that Lee's assertion (that Dan Harrington was wrong) was a bit of a stretch. There were a couple of articles regarding game theory in the Jan. and Feb. 2+2 magazine that shed more light on this subject.

As I see it Lee Jones and his partner MAY (since I'm no game theory expert) have based their argument that Dan was wrong based on false assumptions. Those are that your opponent is 1)rational and 2)plays an optimum strategy. As Dan's example describes a situation early in HU, we would have no way to judge this.