Cardquant https://cardquant.com/ Poker Decoded Sat, 14 Nov 2020 17:44:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Poker strategy as a knowledge frontier https://cardquant.com/poker-strategy-as-a-knowledge-frontier/ https://cardquant.com/poker-strategy-as-a-knowledge-frontier/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2020 15:19:31 +0000 http://cardquant.com/?p=4818 "He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast." - Leonardo da Vinci The frontiers of human understanding present a man with the greatest opportunities for extraordinary success. The opportunity to explore where others cannot [...]

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]]> https://cardquant.com/poker-strategy-as-a-knowledge-frontier/feed/ 3 Where does the Mainstream Poker Training stampede lead? https://cardquant.com/the-mainstream-poker-training-stampede/ https://cardquant.com/the-mainstream-poker-training-stampede/#comments Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:43:56 +0000 http://cardquant.com/?p=4575 "There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There's no escaping it- from a purely financial standpoint poker is a negative sum game. This simple fact presents a conundrum that every mainstream poker training business tries very hard to ignore: It is impossible to [...]

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]]> https://cardquant.com/the-mainstream-poker-training-stampede/feed/ 11 Short Deck Poker Math 102: Pocket Pairs as Straight Blockers https://cardquant.com/short-deck-poker-math-102/ https://cardquant.com/short-deck-poker-math-102/#respond Tue, 23 Jul 2019 16:28:27 +0000 http://cardquant.com/?p=4267 “Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.” – Arthur Schopenhauer Short Deck Poker is a game which revolves around straights. With 36% of all boards offering the possibility of at least one straight on the flop, and 72% of all boards offering that [...]

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]]> https://cardquant.com/short-deck-poker-math-102/feed/ 0 Short Deck Poker Math 101: Board Probabilities https://cardquant.com/short-deck-poker-math-101/ https://cardquant.com/short-deck-poker-math-101/#comments Fri, 31 May 2019 15:40:44 +0000 http://cardquant.com/?p=4131 “A very small cause that we fail to notice determines a very significant effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.” – Henri Poincaré Short Deck Poker Strategy is one of the newest domains in which I currently conduct research at the Cardquant [...]

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]]> https://cardquant.com/short-deck-poker-math-101/feed/ 2 Beyond the Solvers: How to Evaluate Straight Draws in Multiway Pots https://cardquant.com/beyond-the-solvers-how-to-evaluate-straight-draws-in-multiway-pots/ https://cardquant.com/beyond-the-solvers-how-to-evaluate-straight-draws-in-multiway-pots/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:38:32 +0000 http://cardquant.com/?p=3990 When your daily working life begins and ends at a computer screen it's all to easy to be sucked into the maelstrom of clickbait, trends, and sensationalist Youtube videos. In the poker world the emphasis on solvers as some kind of Oracle is great for quickly generating content and has led to many [...]

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