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Understanding the Mathematical Concept of Variance
Let us begin with a hypothetical situation. Say you have played 100,000 45-man turbo SNGs over the course of a few years, and your investment has yielded a 24%...
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The Pressure of Honesty
To begin with a cliché: one of the many essential qualities of winning poker players is the ability to deceive their opponents. Unfortunately this game also affords many opportunities...
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Uconventional Aesthetics and Experimental Tournament Poker
It is often said of posthumously successful artists who were underappreciated in their lifetime that they were somehow ahead of their time. Their contribution to their craft could not...
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The Myth of the Bad Run, and an Embarrassing Story
There have been hundreds (if not thousands) of posts made on pocketfives lamenting seemingly endless runs of bad cards and bad beats. To further the aggravation, poker players tend...
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Der Mythos vom "schlechten Lauf" und eine peinliche Geschichte
Es gibt hunderte, wenn nicht sogar tausende Posts bei pocketfives die sich über scheinbar endlose Pechstränen und Ströme schlechter Karten und Bad Beats beschweren. Um das ganze dann noch...