Hi pb: You slightly misunderstand me, or perhaps I didn't really express myself clearly. I can read the chapter early on from Sklansky/Miller (where different bet sizes are shown to be correct, depending on your position, your hand, your opponent, etc, but in mathematical game theory terms) and I can understand it. But I doubt that I would have had the diligence to work itout myself (but, and this is the important point, I know how to, and I could have).
What I mean is that I do not have the ability to instinctively come up with the right strategy in game situations. Inother words, give me a piece of paper and a calculator and I can work it out, slowly, but some people seem to have an "instinct" for it, which means that they catch on to new games far quicker than mere mortals like me.
Take Badugi, a game with little literature, or 2-to-7, with only a little more literature, or, indeed Royal Hold'em. If I sat down with people like Mikey (see below) at these games, in a situation where we had just been taught the rules, I would back Mike to beat me every time. However, give us a year of solid playing, and I would back myself, because Mike's initial advantage would by then have been negated by my learning through experience, but my advantages would have had time to come through.
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Date: 2006-07-27 06:57 pm (UTC)You slightly misunderstand me, or perhaps I didn't really express myself clearly. I can read the chapter early on from Sklansky/Miller (where different bet sizes are shown to be correct, depending on your position, your hand, your opponent, etc, but in mathematical game theory terms) and I can understand it. But I doubt that I would have had the diligence to work itout myself (but, and this is the important point, I know how to, and I could have).
What I mean is that I do not have the ability to instinctively come up with the right strategy in game situations. Inother words, give me a piece of paper and a calculator and I can work it out, slowly, but some people seem to have an "instinct" for it, which means that they catch on to new games far quicker than mere mortals like me.
Take Badugi, a game with little literature, or 2-to-7, with only a little more literature, or, indeed Royal Hold'em. If I sat down with people like Mikey (see below) at these games, in a situation where we had just been taught the rules, I would back Mike to beat me every time. However, give us a year of solid playing, and I would back myself, because Mike's initial advantage would by then have been negated by my learning through experience, but my advantages would have had time to come through.
PJ