Fit or Fold -- ouch

[pzhon]

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In MOP the clairvoyant game is introduced.
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This knowledge wasn't known when Mason wrote
his book.


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First, this type of example was known before MOP. For example, I posted about it at least twice here, and I expect that several people solved it before I did.

Second, whether this example was known or not doesn't change whether an argument is invalid. It's wrong to say "Strategy A is bad because it is worse than B," when B is not an option.

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Here is a post where the notion was abused. Now TStoneMBD is 999x better at poker than me, but he was still wrong to use this justification at a point in the hand where the game is no longer zero sum. The erroneous post may have been caused by this very article.

I think I posted in that thread and then deleted it quickly because I didn't want to get into it. A year from now this will come up yet again and Mason or somebody will tell me that I'm dumb again and need to read another book.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...rue#Post6550999