The Mathematics of Poker
by Bill Chen, Jerrod Ankenman
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Author: Bill Chen, Jerrod AnkenmanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-11-30
ISBN: 1886070253
Number of pages: 382
Publisher: Conjelco
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- ISBN13: 9781886070257
- Condition: NEW
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Book Reviews of The Mathematics of Poker
Book Review: Not for everyone
Summary: 5 Stars
Firstly, if you have not taken at least one statistics course, you probably won't understand much in this book. There are also some topics using calculus, but are explained in a way to where you may not actually need to understand the calculus in order to understand the point they are trying to make. I am currently in college and have only taken Statistics I, and Calculus I & II so far and I really had to focus in some parts of the book in order to follow the math.
I learned A LOT from this book and was very happy that I read it early in my "poker career." It goes extremely deep into seemingly-simple topics and shows how you can eek out a slight percentage advantage in certain situations. I benefited the most from the parts covering "optimal play" where some interesting points were made.
I own ~10 no-limit hold'em books (most of the popular ones) and this book was by far the most advanced book I have read. I would highly recommend this book to any intermediate/advanced players looking to improve their game, but not if you can't handle a lot of math; this book isn't for everyone.
Summary of The Mathematics of Poker
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the bond an option markets were dominated by traders who had learned their craft by experience. They believed that there experience and intuition for trading were a renewable edge; this is, that they could make money just as they always had by continuing to trade as they always had. By the mid-1990s, a revolution in trading had occurred; the old school grizzled traders had been replaced by a new breed of quantitative analysts, applying mathematics to the "art" of trading and making of it a science. Similarly in poker, for decades, the highest level of pokers have been dominated by players who have learned the game by playing it, "road gamblers" who have cultivated intuition for the game and are adept at reading other players' hands from betting patterns and physical tells. Over the last five to ten years, a whole new breed has risen to prominence within the poker community. Applying the tools of computer science and mathematics to poker and sharing the information across the Internet, these players have challenged many of the assumptions that underlie traditional approaches to the game. One of the most important features of this new approach is a reliance on quantitative analysis and the application of mathematics to the game. The intent of this book is to provide an introduction to quantitative techniques as applied to poker and to a branch of mathematics that is particularly applicable to poker, game theory. There are mathematical techniques that can be applied for poker that are difficult and complex. But most of the mathematics of poker is really not terribly difficult, and the authors have sought to make seemingly difficult topics accessible to players without a very strong mathematical background.Poker Books
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