• sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I used to work in customer support taking phone calls. I once chatted with an older bloke from somewhere in USA who claimed to have made a living playing poker, never having had a real job.

    He said “You don’t even have to be good at poker. You just have to be better than the people you are playing with.”

    Wild.

    • FanonFan [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Yup, it’s the only game at a casino where you can have positive EV (other than some rare exceptions like counting cards at blackjack and such). But you don’t just have to be better than people around you, you have to be better enough to overcome the rake.

      it’s interesting to track the evolution of poker strategy over the decades, slowly changing from a vibe-based stylistic approach to a rigorous statistical one, then over the last few years shifting to mostly studying solvers.