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Start your kids onto the path of gambling? No thanks. Better to teach them chess, xiangqi, shogi or go/baduk.
I'm surprised at the general tone of response here towards the subject of poker overall (I didn't read the article yet so perhaps something more is in the context, but all the same); I understand there are many in the poker world even regarding the most successful of whom are regarded as living a degenerate lifestyle, but being that I was previously in that world myself and was not a degenerate type; I never gambled…
Hey I've started playing poker occasionally again, wanna have a chat about poker? My email is in my profile. I used to be a winning player at small stakes about 20 years ago, so nothing major but enough for me to show that it's a game of skill. But yea, for anyone interested why poker is a game of skill, it's due to the law of large numbers. You can easily see the law kick into effect when you simulate a dice roll an…
I like this. Most people try to teach card games by listing every rule, but it's much easier to play a simpler version then add in new rules. I play the Chinese card game Zhao Peng You (Finding Friends, part of the Sheng Ji family of games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_ji ), which is a trick taking game with a trump suit that changes between games, a trump number that changes between games, and a team selection…
I think he mentions it in several lectures, but here's one: https://youtu.be/av5Hf7uOu-o?t=697
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Poker players very seldom outright lie, like saying out loud "hey everybody, my hand is great!", and it's usually not just simple "deception" either. How about "behaving in a way that increases the probability of your particular adversaries making incorrect inferences about your situation"?
> How about "behaving in a way that increases the probability of your particular adversaries making incorrect inferences about your situation"? I'd call that lying with extra steps. (Which to be clear, im fine with in the context of a game (and in certain contexts even in real life). Plenty of sports can be traced back to ritualized ways of practising to murder people. Take all the field sports of track and field)