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kqr2 · 2009-04-05
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Actually, from the description of his high stakes poker games, he ran computer simulations in order to gain a competitive advantage so I wouldn't be surprised if he actually wrote a program.
Beal, for his part, took a mathematical approach, at one point running millions of computer simulations of various poker problems, in search of an edge against the pros, who rely on an uncanny intuition honed by thousands of hands
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