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Poker Variance can TK please explain what this is ... in the world of computers
mrhappy38
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After much time i have now worked out that poker variance does not apply to computers, I can call flops and turns and Rivers 95 % of the time and Variance does not fix that mode, in a real life deal then shore it would work, but not on the internet, sorry to burst your bubble.
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Oh Lloyd what have you done now
Sorry for delayed reply, it's a job to reply to that to be honest.
Variance applies to everything, everywhere, & that certainly includes Online poker.
Did you see who won the UKOPS Main Event? It was a player who only plays £0.28 DYM's & Freerolls. She won over £12,000. Everyone was delighted for her, & nobody suggested there was something wrong with the software. Was she the best player in the UKOPS Main Event? No. Be a job to argue that, wouldn't it? She played great, but she won, and that was partly thanks to variance. And that is why we all love poker so much.
@MattBates might be the best MTT player on Sky Poker. He's definitely among the best. Did he win the UKOPS Main Event?
If, say, Phil Ivey or Phil Hellmuth played tonight's Sky Poker Main Event, & it had 300 runners, what price would either of them be to win it? 10/1? 20/1? They could play the nightly Main Event on Sky Poker every day for a month & not win it. That's variance.
I'm going to issue you a friendly challenge on your belief that you can "call flops & turns 95% of the time". Because you can't. If you could, you'd be a zillionaire by now, you would NEVER LOSE. So let me know next time you are playing. & I'll join the rail of your table. Then you can type in the chat box what the flop & turn are going to be.
And if you can correctly predict the flop & turn 9 times out of 10........
Yours in poker
Mark
Where did i say software as i had a degree in Computer Software i would not.
and because you said that then i would guess you don't.
In real game Variance does come in to play, but alas it does not on Computers, because if they did i would not not keep a single penny on something that they run.
and i'm still call 90% to 95% of flops, because i known how a compute thinks.
and it's not all my games.....
Okay, I know this is not an academic setting but, please indulge me... There is some debate as to whether there are 3 or 4 periods in an ellipsis. However, I think there is quite strong consensus that there are not 5.
Why in the world would you ever complain if this was the case? I would be laying atop a rather large pile of notes doing 'snow angels' with £ notes taking the place of the snow if I were you, in that scenario. You cannot generalise between RNGs, 'computers in general' and real life when talking about variance. Variance, as a topic, is highly nuanced and there are different sets of assumptions depending on which domain you are debating it in relation to.
In the words of Tim Minchin "Most of society's arguments are kept alive by a failure to acknowledge nuance. Arguing one point using two entirely different sets of assumptions is a bit like two tennis players trying to win a tennis match by hitting beautifully executed shots... on different tennis courts".
Truly great speech that if anyone has 6 minutes 42 seconds to kill...
Computers cant think.