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Poking Stick

Posted By: rew
Date: Saturday, 3 November 2007, at 11:26 a.m.

In Response To: Poking Stick (happyjuggler0)

A couple of obvious points :

-- in any tournament the horse included there is a huge amount of luck involved. It is less than in the main event because (among other things) there are fewer participants and more games involved (so you need more "poker skill" just to avoid throwing your money away in some game you don't know). The way poker and backgammon works is that there is so much luck involved that a single tournament isnt sufficient to make skill more important than luck as reflected in results. It could be, but then the skill level between the best and the second best players had to be bigger than it is today. A backgammon analogogy : if one player could jump back in time to early last century and play 21 point matches tournaments with a snowie rate of say 3 against people who play snowie rate 20 he would be a huge favourite but obviously that is not a case anymore and neither is it in poker -- in a tournament with only good players present which player will do well? My guess is a "good player".

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