Gini’s coefficient
Corrado Gini published his technique for finding a measure of variability in 1912. Brown and Adams, in their Bluff article, “Luck and Skill in Poker,” (2007 July p.104) used Gini’s coefficient to measure the degree of skill extant in tournament poker. Brown and Adams concluded that skill and luck existed in a 1-to-3 ratio […]
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Poker Player Profile: Lee Watkinson
He was on the road again, poker pro Lee Watkinson and his friends.
There he was on an afternoon in mid-September, sitting around his London hotel waiting for a plane out of there, still deciding on his next stop in search of poker table action.
“Maybe it would be the Borgata in Atlantic […]
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Jan Fisher
There are so many rules and scenarios in a poker game that you can’t possibly know or even learn until you or someone at your table screws up! There also are many “decisions” that can’t be made until the exact sequence occurs and then a floorperson does the best that he can under the […]
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Mike Caro is the ‘Mad Genius’ of Poker
For the last two columns, we’ve been dealing with questions and answers important to poker success. Today, we move onward (today’s word), further exploring this method of teaching-one where I get to choose the questions that I answer.
This method works for me-and I hope it works for you, […]
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The World Series of Poker Europe-Is It Worthwhile?
For the first time in the nearly four decade history of the WSOP, bracelets were awarded outside the confines of Las Vegas. This, however, led some observers to question the event. Is the World Series of Poker Europe really a part of World Series lore? Should they award […]
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Ashley Adams
Maybe I’m playing poker too much. I was sitting in synagogue today, the first day of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah-a day for serious introspection. I found myself focused on a prayer written by the famous Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan. He was addressing the Jewish view of sin and salvation-major themes on this special […]
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I. Nelson Rose
There is money to be made in poker tournaments-tax money. Apparently, someone at the Internal Revenue Service has figured out that a lot of people in America are playing poker. And- this will come as a shock- some are not paying taxes on their winnings. So, the IRS has changed the law.
Internal Revenue […]
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Paul ‘Dr. Pauly’ McGuire
A few days shy of my 19th birthday, I was downing shots of cheap tequila and playing nickel and dime ante stud poker in my fraternity house when I wasn’t cutting classes to follow The Grateful Dead for weeks at a time. Fifteen years ago I could never imagine check-raising the world’s […]
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WSOP
The 362 players who took part in the inaugural WSOPE main event in London were considerably fewer than the number expected by event organisers, but it was still the biggest prize pool in British poker history. The ?10,000 buy-in event was historic for more than one reason, as the winner was not only the first […]
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