Actually I liked the quote, in fact, would agree in part with it. I
thought LB's comment was humorous.
--- In vpFREE@y..., Bill Velek <billvelek@a...> wrote:
Lawrence Boxer wrote:
>>> Or- as one successful live poker player once told me: Over
time,
>>> everyone gets the same number of good hands and lousy hands.
It's
>>> how you play those hands that separates the winners from the
>>> losers.<<
>>
>
> I wish I'd said that. And at some point I will.Why? Because it sounds cute? The fact is, it isn't true in the
sense
that it is a law -- that it will happen. This is not the same
thing as
saying that it hasn't happened or that it won't happen; merely,
that it
won't _necessarily_ be the case. Logically, there is a
_possibility_
that every person will get the same distribution of hands -- both
good
and bad; of course, the odds of that happening are no doubt
absolutely
astronomical, which if good enough of a reason for me to
essentially
treat it as a false statement. On the other hand, there is also
the
much more likely possibility that some people will receive more
than
their share of good hands (a few even receiving _far_ more than
their
share), while others will receive less than their share of good
hands.
And then we have the ridiculous, but nonetheless real, possibility
that
from now until the end of time, every single person will be dealt a
Royal Flush every single hand. And on the other extreme, there is
also
a possibility that from now on, no one will ever get as much as a
high
pair ever again. All of those scenarios are absolute possibilites,
based upon the application of the mathematics of probability with
the
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random generation of hands.
Cheers.
Bill Velek