Kevin comments on Verifying Rationality via RationalPoker.com - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Louie 25 March 2011 04:32PM

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Comment author: Kevin 25 March 2011 09:56:42PM 7 points [-]

One of the reasons Hold'Em is popular is that it is easy to do the probability calculations in your head. We should probably post about that...

Comment author: Cyan 26 March 2011 12:51:58AM 3 points [-]

Hell yes.

Comment author: Mycroft65536 26 March 2011 05:52:50AM 1 point [-]

Also, most of the time you're doing the same calculation over and over. People who can't do math are fine most of the time (but not all, and that matters) because they have the odds memorized.

Comment author: Kevin 26 March 2011 06:37:17AM *  1 point [-]

That's true. When I first started playing, I ran a live screen scraping odds calculator on top of my poker tables, and five years later I don't use a calculator and I have the odds precomputed.

(I should actually check and make sure my precomputed odds are still right... I suspect they are off in certain cases)

Comment author: drethelin 26 March 2011 04:40:14PM 1 point [-]

do you have a link to this program?

Comment author: Kevin 26 March 2011 10:50:03PM 3 points [-]
Comment author: rastilin 05 April 2011 07:40:39AM 0 points [-]

I wouldn't bother with that. I tried it and the latest version is incompatible with the current batch of poker software, they haven't updated it in years. You're better off looking at review sites for a more up to date application.