reducing variance: the sklansky bux swap

[tommo]

You could just datamine and record hands where members of the group were all in. From an ev standpoint it wouldn't really even matter if your datamining wasn't perfect, since the hands you missed would even out in the end.

As for payment issues you could bind people to the swap by having them pay an entrance fee. That way you are partially compensated if they back out later.

i.e. you could say "you can join our sklansky buck swap group and we'll watch you at x level and below. but you have to pay y where why is a function of the level that you are watching them. y would probably tend to work out to 2 or 3x the buyin I would guess.

if there were a lot of interest in this I might be able to put a site together. It would be fairly difficult though, so I definitely need to know that some people would be interested (and willing to pay).

basically I would allow people to make groups and charge an entrance fee. I would also keep track of anybody who backed out of a payment and not let him join a group again. I could then datamine all members of my site for their all in hands.

pm me if you're interested and we'll talk a bit.

edit: a third party would do the datamining.