27 Jul
2007
27 Jul
'07
7:49 a.m.
MikeG>A book you probably *don't* want, but may enjoy anyway, is "Poker Strategy: Winning with Game Theory" by Nesmith Ankeny (he was a math professor at MIT when I was an undergrad). It is a book about how to win at poker, but (for better or for worse) written by a mathematician. If I remember correctly, the main concern of the book was when and how to bluff. I took his seminar in '64 or '65 and had to deliver in class a precis on his manuscript. The only thing I remember was never bluff on a mediocre hand. He claimed to finance an annual trip to Las Vegas by playing poker with off-duty blackjack dealers. --rwg