Dragaera

Poker (was Vlad)

Thu Apr 1 18:32:15 PST 2004

I love to watch poker on TV. But like, at the table, do players have a
just a feel of what chances they have, and just like uhm a mental note
of what to do or do they really calculate those odds and compare?

-S

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark A Mandel [mailto:mam at theworld.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 8:21 PM
To: Sunny Han
Cc: 'Joshua Kronengold'; dragaera at dragaera.info
Subject: RE: vlad

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Sunny Han wrote:

#The same page as a "about the author" informing the curious reader of
#Brust's "ongoing interest in stochastics."
#
#Wtf?
#
#>From my math experience, stochastics is like stock analysis, like

	[...]
#
#But where would Brust dabble in stuff as such?

At the poker table.

-- Mark A. Mandel
   http://cracksandshards.com
   a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website