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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: fuzzy poker
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Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 21:31:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  5 21:31:33 1984
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>                                                One son, after getting his
> statistics Ph.D. at 20 or so, claims to have draw poker figured out.
> Bluffing is dealt with by simple probability theory.  As I remember,
> "Winning Poker Systems" is one of those "just-memorize-the-equivalent-of-
> ten-phone-numbers-for-instant-riches" books.  He worked his way through school
> with funds won in Emeryville poker parlors.  Not too shabby, but not too
> fuzzy, either ...

When I was working with the SUNY-Buffalo POKER GROUP, we managed to
verify some of N. Zadeh's tables with hard statistics.  Anybody who's
interested can find some of our results in Bramer's anthology _Computer
Game-Playing: Theory and Practice_ (1983).
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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