Interesting take on poker pros

[Xanthro]

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As a side note, if we're betting $1 on heads and tails on tosses of a fair coin, there's a 10% chance one of us is up over $52k after a billion tosses. If the charts of that match were published, people would say that person is clearly the better coin tosser, as luck evens out in the end, and there's no way a person could be up 52k after a BILLION tosses, betting only $1 a toss.

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Are you really arguing that somehow $52,000 out of $1,000,000,000 is some statistically significant amount?

Anyone who says that the $52,000 out of $1,000,000,000 makes someone a better coin tosser is at the same level as those arguing that somehow all the better poker players have to be on the "lucky" side of poker.