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> There are few games in life, very few pursuits in which you can remove skill or familiarity and be left with an entertaining test of anything. Maybe luck, whi
by zone411 3y ago
> There are few games in life, very few pursuits in which you can remove skill or familiarity and be left with an entertaining test of anything. Maybe luck, which is why craps is the social game. But skill or familiarity? I don't think any sort of "game" exists like this that people take seriously.
The aim is to play a game where both skill and luck play roles, similar to real life. Poker is one such game.
- adolph 3y agoFor Von Neumann, the inspiration for game theory was poker, a game he played occasionally and not terribly well. Von Neumann realized that poker was not guided by probability theory alone, as an unfortunate player who would use only probability theory would find out. Von Neumann wanted to formalize the idea of "bluffing," a strategy that is meant to deceive the other players and hide information from them. https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/1998-99/game-theory/neumann.html https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/project... I learned about Von Neumann and poker from the book "Thinking in Bets" by Annie Duke. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735216371 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735216371