UFC announcer Bruce Buffer cashes in 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main eventLAS VEGAS-Bruce Buffer, who is an avid poker player, finished 478th out of 7,319 players who entered into the grand daddy of all poker tournaments-The World Series of Poker Main Event. Buffer earned a $27,519 payout for the finish in the $10,000-buyin no-limit Texas hold'em tournament.

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In previous columns, I introduced some basic terms used by the math weenies of the poker world. These terms included equity, pot odds, probability, range of hands, combinations, and outs. I hope by now that you know what these things mean. In this column, I'd like to take an introductory look at how game theory applies to poker.

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With a father who taught game theory and probability at UCLA, Chris Ferguson, a Bruin with two UCLA degrees, was probably born to be a poker champion. You might even say the deck was stacked in his favor. Although Ferguson obtained a bachelor's in computer science and a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence at Westwood, gaming was always in his blood.

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As every self-respecting poker degenerate knows, there are 1,326 unique starting hands in the Texas Hold'em universe. When you peek at your hole cards at the beginning of a hand, all of the 1,326 combinations are equally likely. Your chances of seeing AhAs are exactly the same as seeing 7d2c .

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Throughout the course of this blog I will point out the similarities that I believe exist between "investing" in the stock market and paying poker. In effect, one can think of these both of games, obviously poker more so than the stock market. By I hope to be able make the investing decision much less murky and more rewarding.

BetUS poker school about Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman's book The Mathematics of Poker: This book by Chen and Ankenman is a masterpiece in many ways. Unfortunately, it requires a very high level of math knowledge, it's extremely technical. The book outlines game theory applications of poker, and it does so methodically and completely.

hi, i play mainly hu nl holdem, but i have really enjoy playing mtt's, i maybe play 10-20 per week, starting to get right down to the last1-2% on stars regulary now, have never made a final table tho, always seems to go card ded at the crucial point or lose a big race which is just life i guess, really just wondering how many tourneys u regualr guys are playing and what ur expecting from them, in terms of finishing how deep?

Months, $2 Million" ("2M2MM") Follows Four 20-Something Math Whizzes Determined to Make it Big this Summer in the World of High Stakes Online Poker This summer, "geeks are wild" as G4 takes viewers inside the world of competitive high stakes online poker in a new series that follows four young high IQ friends who join forces and set up shop in Las Vegas.

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For those who are not yet in the know, Absolute Poker has come under fire in the most significant online poker room scandal ever. It is suspected that an insider had access to an account that showed cards of all players at the table, and the insider used that information to swindle mostly high-limit pros out of an estimated $700,000.

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