Big rewards come to those who take risk. this is a true story on you taking good risk but Doctorate in Maths must be helpful for this, right?
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Big rewards come to those who take risk. this is a true story on you taking good risk but Doctorate in Maths must be helpful for this, right?
In undergrad I took every math class the department offered with the exception of 3: Operations research, Statistics 1, and Statistics 2. As my interest in poker grew I probably should have invested more time into stats, but I was busy trying to pump out my 2nd major in computer science and taking all of the interesting math classes I really wanted to take.
Being skilled at math helps in poker, but the math is really not all that hard. A lot of it is simple combinatorics. For instance, If I have an ace in my hand and there's an ace on the board, how many combinations of AA and AK do you have? Well, you can have one combination of AA (both remaining aces) and you can have 8 combinations of AK (two aces, four kings). Counting stuff like that is the backbone of poker math, and then game theory math is usually more logic based. But nothing super high level like Analysis or Abstract Algebra proofs. There are definitely some things I'd have picked up in advanced statistics classes, but I don't feel like I missed out on too much knowledge by not taking those classes.
wow, but statistics are the hot thing now with the analyticis focus but you made your pot of gold so not matter.
besides, there lies, damn lies and there's statistics. :-)