[Johnny Hughes]

This is very interesting. It could have impressive applications for poker tournaments based on player's getting the same hands, like duplicate bridge.

I played a lot of bridge tournaments and got my Life Masters, the highest rank in bridge, forty years ago.

Each partnership has the same hands as all the others that sit North South and you are compared based on results against all the others that played that hand. In a version of duplicate poker, you would win a hand even if it was a loser if you lost less money on the hand than all those others that held it.

You could set up poker tournaments that lessened but did not eliminate luck. You could set up International matches against teams. Let several teams play the same set of hands Laake played.

In bridge, the luck comes from how well your opponents play and flukes such as a lucky guess or strange play.