{"product_id":"the-mathematics-of-poker-1","title":"The Mathematics of Poker","description":"In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the bond an option markets were dominated by traders who had learned their craft by experience. They believed that there experience and intuition for trading were a renewable edge; this is, that they could make money just as they always had by continuing to trade as they always had. By the mid-1990s, a revolution in trading had occurred; the old school grizzled traders had been replaced by a new breed of quantitative analysts, applying mathematics to the \"art\" of trading and making of it a science.\nSimilarly in poker, for decades, the highest level of pokers have been dominated by players who have learned the game by playing it, \"road gamblers\" who have cultivated intuition for the game and are adept at reading other players' hands from betting patterns and physical tells. Over the last five to ten years, a whole new breed has risen to prominence within the poker community. Applying the tools of computer science and mathematics to poker and sharing the information across the Internet, these players have challenged many of the assumptions that underlie traditional approaches to the game.\nOne of the most important features of this new approach is a reliance on quantitative analysis and the application of mathematics to the game. The intent of this book is to provide an introduction to quantitative techniques as applied to poker and to a branch of mathematics that is particularly applicable to poker, game theory. There are mathematical techniques that can be applied for poker that are difficult and complex. But most of the mathematics of poker is really not terribly difficult, and the authors have sought to make seemingly difficult topics accessible to players without a very strong mathematical background.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1886070253\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1886070253.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Bill Chen|Jerrod Ankenman\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41702146539578,"sku":"DBV.1886070253.G","price":11.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1886070253-0_63edb162-7f92-46d9-b0e7-bd417fbd0615.jpg?v=1790309330","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-mathematics-of-poker-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}