Mathematical buffoonery

August 3rd, 2005

My current lunchtime project is the application of hard scientific analysis to the game of poker using a randomly made-up mathematical style. So far, it has produced:

• One pretty graph

However, in terms of scientific insight into solving a game of incomplete information it hasn’t produced very much. For the sake of those who love pretty graphs however, here’s a nice treat for you.

The blue trendline maps the tightness of a player, with the loosest play being towards the right. The pink line indicates the number of hands you would expect to win if you played like that. As you can see, if you play more hands, you win more hands.

This is now proven scientific fact. I thank you.

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