By
Fox |
Published
Feb 15 2006, 12:49 AM
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Time is short today. My schedule for the day is quite busy and I also just started with a new weekly student, so I'm sort of copping out and posting a quick book review. The book is called Fortune's Formula, it's fairly well distributed and you should be able to find it at any good sized bookstore. Those of you interested in game theory, information theory, or blackjack will find it very entertaining. The book goes through the history of some great thinkers who created the thought processes we use in poker on a daily basis, inlcuding Ed Thorpe, the father of modern card counting and how he devised and used his system.
From Kelly (of the famed Kelly Criterion) to Edward Thorpe and Claude Shannon, you'll find stories about all the minds that helped create the sciences of information and game theory, with a few amusing gambling anecdotes as well.
Fortune's Formula gets 5 out of 5 Foxtails and I'm only half way through it.
I'll see you at the final table,
Fox
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