UNIVERSITY Interest In and Concerns About Poker

Harvard chooses the best students in the world to come here to learn. We see many of them become intensely interested in playing the game of poker. It behooves us to ask: What is to be learned from playing poker? What is to be feared? Can we mitigate the risks our fears represent?

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We have an opportunity to research a magnificent digital data base opened to us by the online poker industry for purposes of research. We will inquire into questions of interest and concern. We go unfettered where the questions lead, not channeled to any pre-determined result.

• How great and how serious are the dangers of addiction? Are there signals of addiction that can be discerned and used to warn those at risk?
• Does Poker encourage alcohol and tabacco abuse?
• Is Poker women-friendly? What is the history and trajectory of female participation in poker?
• Poker is a game of skill. Can we prove it beyond a reasonable doubt? Can measures be developed and empirical work structured relevant to the legal regulation of poker?
• Does poker exploit poor people?
• Is society losing its best minds to professional poker?
• Has anyone improved on Nez Ankeny's bluffing algorithm?

How would one query the data in order to test these questions? There are many possibilities and permutations in a statistical model. Basic MLE: dichotomous dependent variable--bluff, no bluff. Independent variables: bet size, strength of hand, gender, size of pot, size of player's chip stack, size of opponent's chip stack, number of prior hands played, size of blink, big blind/small blind/no blind, and theoretically interesting interactions between any of the above. Interact these with income. The qualitative questions are left to inference from this and other data.

There are many possibilities and permutations in a statistical model. Basic MLE: dichotomous dependent variable--bluff, no bluff. Independent variables: bet size, strength of hand, gender, size of pot, size of player's chip stack, size of opponent's chip stack, number of prior hands played, size of blink, big blind/small blind/no blind, and theoretically interesting interactions between any of the above. Interact these with income. The qualitative questions are left to inference from this and other data.

In the duel I draw you into my area of strength, which is your area of strength. In seduction I draw you into my area of weakness, which is your area of weakness. In poker, I seduce time itself.

For most people Poker is an intelligence challenge. It has a long history and many stories to tell. It's about confronting personalities winning and loosing.Yes i agree whit people playing poker and i admire and appreciate the winners.Kichler lighting