Forum: MTT Strategy
10-29-2007, 01:00 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 77
Re: Flopped straight on all diamond board
Thanks for the input.
Here's what happened next (feel free to criticise my play at any stage):
I led out with a bet of 2500. The original raiser, after a moment's thought, pushed all in for...
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Forum: MTT Strategy
10-29-2007, 07:08 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 77
Flopped straight on all diamond board
It's a live £10 (approx $20) rebuy tourney.
Down to the final 25 or so players. The blinds are at 350/700 (rising every 20 minutes), and I have approx 13,000 chips.
I'm sitting in the BB, and a...
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Forum: Probability
06-01-2007, 05:04 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 77
Fairly easy probability problem
A horrid disease affects 1 in 10,000 people. You are tested for it. The test is accurate 99 times in 100. The result comes through positive. What are the chances that you have the disease?
a)...
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Forum: MTT Strategy
04-20-2007, 09:09 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 58
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Forum: MTT Strategy
04-20-2007, 07:45 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 58
All-in UTG with a moderate hand and an absent BB
The situation is this:
It's a satellite tournament with 15 places up for grabs for a bigger tournament later in the week There are about 30 players left.
With blinds of 250/500, I'm at table of...
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Forum: Probability
02-21-2007, 07:28 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 76
Re: Bingo question
Great work - thanks, Aaron.
Apologies for being an absolute pain, but could someone give me a brief run down of the working for all this, or point me in the direction of somehwere that explains...
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Forum: Probability
02-20-2007, 12:23 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 76
Re: Bingo question
Also, and I know this is appallingly basic, what does the C mean in the xCy notation?
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Forum: Probability
02-20-2007, 12:22 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 76
Re: Bingo question
Excellent - thanks a lot for that for (a)
For (b), though, what I meant was that if there were only 25 unique cards available, how small would the number pool have to be to ensure that one of the...
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Forum: Probability
02-20-2007, 11:18 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 76
Bingo question
If I was creating a bingo game with 9 numbers per card, and 13 numbers picked randomly from a selection of 50, how many (unique) cards would I need in order to guarantee there would be a winner at...
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
12-11-2006, 12:28 PM
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Replies: 114
Views: 1,145
Re: Two More Things People Think But Won\'t Say
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2. As long as even a small fraction of woman suffer PMS to the point where it occasionaly affects their decisions, that one fact is highly relevant as far as voting for a woman president...
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Forum: Books and Publications
12-08-2006, 12:40 PM
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Replies: 396
Views: 2,465
Re: The Mathematics of Poker
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just previewed my Amazon Delivery Estimate (I ordered it on Nov. 30th with 7 other poker books [2 Ray Zee, 2 Sklansky, 3 Malmuth, 1 Hilger and 1 Navarro])
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I think you...
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Forum: STT Strategy
11-08-2006, 09:38 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 50
Re: PS $16 - bad push?
If you're pot-committed anyway, then does it matter if the money goes in now or on the flop? If he'd call a smaller raise (with a worse hand) but fold to an all-in pre-flop, then you get more value...
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Forum: Puzzles and Other Games
10-31-2006, 09:40 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 86
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Forum: Tournament Circuit/WSOP
08-07-2006, 08:53 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 134
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Forum: STT Strategy
04-30-2006, 02:43 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 61
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Forum: Politics
04-12-2006, 09:31 PM
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Replies: 74
Views: 282
Re: Burden of proof
The fact that most people's usage of theft does not include taxation is mostly irrelevant. The commonsensical meaning behind theft (the one that we use), if consistently applied to the scenario of...
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Forum: Psychology
04-12-2006, 08:35 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 79
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Forum: STT Strategy
02-03-2006, 10:40 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 22
Paradise $55 tourney - tough turn decision
Game #1260963333 (Level I, Game #6) - 5/10 No Limit Texas Hold'em - 2006/02/03-20:11:56.1 (CST)
Table "Cable Beach" ($50 tournament) -- Seat 3 is the button
Seat 2: garik777 (1,070.00 in chips)...
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Forum: STT Strategy
01-05-2006, 02:14 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 24
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Forum: STT Strategy
01-04-2006, 09:45 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 24
$55 Paradise tourney - what\'s your move here?
Game #1195716958 (Level IV, Game #6) - 30/60 No Limit Texas Hold'em - 2006/01/04-17:01:56.5 (CST)
Table "Honaunau" ($50 tournament) -- Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: lindycat (1,430.00 in chips)...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-06-2005, 09:08 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 182
Re: IQ of top poker players
Sklansky's 10 smartest poker players (http://archiveserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=&Number=1435626&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=)
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
08-10-2005, 07:56 AM
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Replies: 78
Views: 756
Re: Slansky Go Away
You can be a fully justified, rational, reasonable, and non-narrow-minded atheist without ever needing to read the Bible, Koran, Torah or any other religious tract.
All these books do is tell you...
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