Three basic mistakes people

[Eye of the Eagle]

make at casinos, according to a math expert

Many people think of gambling as a frivolous entertainment at best, or a corrupting sin at worst. But throughout history, there have been mathematicians and scientists who have seen the games you’d confront in a Las Vegas casino a very different way — as a playground for ideas where they can test out different notions of how the world works.
That’s the premise of a new book, “The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling.” In the book, mathematician Adam Kucharski traces the long, tangled relationship of betting and science, from the origins of probability theory over a dice game to the kind of sophisticated counting techniques that have won MIT graduates millions in Vegas.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-win-in-vegas/

The book is by Adam Kucharski anybody know about him?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/04...7e8f21acf8f972

[Frank Galvin]

IIRC, all hat, no cattle. Or in other words, lots of historical information, but very little math, probability or gambling theory.

[Jabberwocky]

IIRC, all hat, no cattle. Or in other words, lots of historical information, but very little math, probability or gambling theory.

Historically, math geeks have poor performance records in gambling arenas. Skanska won't sit in a poker game without at least one fish.

[ZenMaster_Flash]

"Skanska won't sit in a poker game without at least one fish."

David Sklansky was a true poker pioneer. His "The Theory of Poker" is a classic.
He certainly applied mathematics to the game ofd poker before the rest of us did.
To this day, he has never written about his BEST game, Seven Card Stud.
Of course it is hard too find that game being spread for non-trivial stakes.

[Jabberwocky]

David Sklansky was a true poker pioneer. His "The Theory of Poker" is a classic.
He certainly applied mathematics to the game ofd poker before the rest of us did.
To this day, he has never written about his BEST game, Seven Card Stud.
Of course it is hard too find that game being spread for non-trivial stakes.

No argument there but he still wanted that drunk player in action.