Timeline for Should you bet in poker against Darth Vader?
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| Sep 16, 2019 at 1:09 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | @domotorp: My book is aimed at poker players. This book amazon.com/Mathematics-Poker-Bill-Chen/dp/1886070253 is aimed more at mathematicians, though it covers a different set of topics. Poker glossaries might help you with my book. "The cutoff" is a position. This position acts second to last in the postflop betting rounds and fourth to last preflop. "The button" is the position after that. Cold-calling means calling a raise with no discount from putting in chips earlier. Calling would mean the same there, but saying "cold call" emphasizes that the button had invested nothing. | |
| Sep 12, 2019 at 9:39 | comment | added | domotorp | I'm a bit disappointed in that your book assumes the knowledge of poker lingo. I'm trying to read it as a mathematician who never played poker in English, and phrases like 'the cutoff raises and the button cold-calls' are quite hard to decipher... | |
| May 30, 2017 at 8:17 | history | bounty ended | domotorp | ||
| May 29, 2017 at 8:37 | comment | added | domotorp | For completeness, let me link to your answer explaining the Clairvoyant Game: mathoverflow.net/a/270877/955 | |
| May 29, 2017 at 8:16 | vote | accept | domotorp | ||
| May 28, 2017 at 4:42 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | @domotorp: Betting less than all-in on the next street would be suboptimal. It's just an example of the Clairvoyant Game. | |
| May 28, 2017 at 4:21 | comment | added | domotorp | Aren't we missing some parameters? Why couldn't Vader raise with something else than all-in on the next street? I assume you might see a reason for it. | |
| May 28, 2017 at 3:23 | history | answered | Douglas Zare | CC BY-SA 3.0 |