CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Four-time poker champion Howard Lederer makes a plush living playing cards. His scholarly calm at the table has earned him the title "The Professor," along with $3.3 million in tournament prize money.
Just don't call him lucky. To describe poker as anything but a game of skill, he says, "is just wrong."
Now poker fans in academe are jumping in to help prove that point, most recently with a daylong "strategy session" at the Harvard Faculty Club bringing together poker pros like Mr. Lederer, game theorists, statisticians, law students and gambling lobbyists.
[Howard Lederer]
"The purpose of this meeting," said Harvard University Law School professor Charles Nesson, kicking things off beneath the dusty visages of long-dead Harvard poets and divines, "is to legitimate poker." To do that, Prof. Nesson and his fellows hope to show, statistically, philosophically, legally and otherwise, that poker is a game in which skill predominates over chance.
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Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject:
Very intesting - I like this quote
HL wrote:
Her brother offers another proposal, which he suggests might impress a future judge. The "vast majority" of high-betting poker hands, he says, are decided after all players except the winner have folded. So if no one shows his cards, Mr. Lederer says, "can you legally argue that the outcome was determined by luck?"
I would be happy to send in my database to show a profile of a bad palyer.
I think a lot of the problem is tournaments as seen on TV. They like to show the suck outs for the action. The do not show the borning plays that are skill related when someone bluffs off a better hand - they like to show the coin tosses which is mostly luck - but it took skill (and some luck) to get there in the first place.
The rather famous bluff by Action Dan on the final table of the WSOP would be great to show it was 100% skill on his part to win that pot - he made a move.
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