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Saw this interesting article on the randomness of shuffling and thought it would be good to have on JustPokerSupplies.com blog. Saw it at ScienceNews

When to stop shuffling depends on the game

By Julie Rehmeyer

Web edition : Friday, November 7th, 2008

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PRISONERS’ CODEENLARGE | Stanford University researchers used mathematics to break coded messages prisoners were sending to each other. To find out what this note says, read the team’s paper.

Here’s the rule: To assure cards get sufficiently mixed up, shuffle a deck about seven times. Mathematician, magician and card shark Persi Diaconis of Stanford University, along with David Bayer of Columbia University, created shock waves in Las Vegas when he figured that out back in 1992. Most dealers had been shuffling much less.

But now Diaconis and his colleagues are issuing an update. When dealing many gambling games, like blackjack, about four shuffles are enough. The reason for the lower number is that many games require randomness for only a few specific aspects of the cards, not all. In blackjack, for example, suits don’t matter. Diaconis and his collaborators extended the earlier analysis to account for these variations.

Gamblers and casinos aren’t the only ones who will benefit. One the most useful tools for applied mathematicians — the Monte Carlo simulation — was inspired by the games of chance that are main attractions in Monte Carlo, Monaco. The new card-shuffling results apply directly to this method, promising to save mathematicians computer time.

Shuffling starts by cutting the deck roughly in half. During the shuffling, a few cards fall from one side, then a few from the other. Diaconis, Sami Assaf of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and K. Soundararajan of Stanford University made the same assumption Diaconis and his collaborator Dave Bayer made back in 1992, that the cards are more likely to fall from the larger stack — an assumption borne out in real life.

Assaf started by using a very small deck, just four cards, and played with it a lot. Then she tried five, then six. From her experiments, she guessed a formula for how mixed the cards were, for whatever property she cared about. Then she worked out a proof.

The formulas she generated, though, were a mess. “We couldn’t actually calculate them,” she says. “We would have had to run the computer for 64 years or something like that.”

So she took each messy, complicated formula to Diaconis and Soundarajan, and for each they found a simple, easy-to-compute equation that approximated it. “We found a beautiful simple pattern,” Diaconis says. “There’s no reason this problem should have a nice answer. I’m not a religious person, but this is as close as I get.”

Previous researchers, specifically Mark Conger and Divakar Viswanath of the University of Michigan, had used computer simulations to work out some of these results. What makes the new approach from Diaconis and his colleagues stand out is that it can be applied to many different card games, using any number of cards. Even better, it can be used for situations far removed from cards, like Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations, a technique that has revolutionized applied mathematics over the past few decades.

Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations harness the power of randomness to solve all kinds of problems that don’t seem random at all. For example, prison officials once asked other mathematicians at Stanford for help decoding a collection of messages. The mathematicians guessed it had been made with a simple substitution cipher, where each symbol corresponded to a letter of the alphabet. The easiest way to solve substitution ciphers is by associating the most frequently used symbol with the most frequently used letter in English (e), the next most frequently used symbol with the next most frequently used letter (t), an so on. But that method failed.

The mathematicians then moved to the next level of sophistication, looking at the frequency of pairs of letters. They downloaded a copy of War and Peace and used it to build a table, showing the frequency with which one letter follows another. This table had 26 columns and 26 rows, and 26 times 26 equals far too many for deciphering by hand.

So the mathematicians used a Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation. They built a simple program that chose a random letter to associate with each symbol. It then decoded the message using that substitution cipher and calculated how probable it was that the resulting pairs of letters in the decoded message would follow one another. It repeated the process with another random substitution cipher. If the new one was more probable, it picked it. If not, it usually kept the original one, but occasionally switched to the new one. After a thousand or so iterations, it had decoded the message — even though the message was written in a mix of English, Spanish and prison jargon.

One of the tricks is recognizing when the simulation can stop, and Diaconis’ new result for shuffling can help with that. Choosing a new random solution in a Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation is a bit like a shuffle of the cards. The methods Diaconis has developed to recognize when a dealer can safely stop shuffling the cards can also tell when the computer can stop running the simulation.

“We’re all enthusiastic,” Diaconis says, “because you can describe it to your mom, the math is hard, and the results are interesting.”

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Home poker games

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Home poker games are an excellent and cost-efficient way to bring a crowd of friends together to spend a night of social bonding and to reinforce friendship ties.

Due to the current economic downturn, hosting a home poker game is becoming increasingly more attractive than going out for a game in town, or hitting the casino. Online poker is cheap, accessible and all that, but it lacks the social aspect entirely, so it’s not a contender in this respect.

There are a few things you need to consider before you send the invitations out to your friends. First of all: what type of game shall you play? Some people – especially those who play online too – love Texas Holdem, others will probably opt for Stud or some other variant. One way to reconcile all the different tastes is to organize dealer’s choice mixed games in which the dealer is the one who names the poker variant played before each hand. If you decide to play such a mixed game, you’ll have invite 5-7 friends only, because games like 7-Card Stud are extremely hard on the deck and they will not accommodate a larger number of players. If Holdem is the game of choice, 6-10 players are what you should aim for.

You’ll also have to specify to all participants in advance the amount of money they’ll have to bring with them for the buy-in. You don’t want one guy aiming to play high stakes and another looking for a penny game. The buy-in should be an amount which is significant enough to matter, (just to make things really interesting), but not something that will make some of the players divert funds from their rent money or electricity bill.

One more thing which needs to be taken care of before you invite people over is the betting structure, as well as the maximum stakes.

In order to make your game as enjoyable as possible, you’ll have to get your hands on some poker hardware too. Now then, here, you can spend tons of money if you so wish, but you don’t necessarily have to. You can get a custom made full extra poker table built of the priciest materials, or you can opt for a simple table top for a few bucks. Remember that pricy tables usually take up a lot of room, so if you’re hosting the game in a crammed little apartment, a poker table-top is what you need, and not just because it’s a lot cheaper too.

Don’t forget to acquire at least two high quality decks of cards and a chipset which has enough pieces to accommodate the action. Don’t forget the dealer button either (although most chip-sets come with such buttons).

Also stock up on snacks and beverages you know your invitees will like.

Playing only one poker variety all night can certainly provide more than enough entertainment to go around, however if you wish to introduce some variety, without making it a radically different game, here’s what you should do. If people come prepared to play Texas Holdem, you may introduce Omaha, Crazy Pineapple and Double flop Holdem into the lineup. These are all community card games and play according to similar or nearly similar rules as Texas Holdem.

If the more traditional 7-card Stud is the highlight on the ‘menu’, you may also mix Razz into the equation as it is based on Stud too, and it is sure to add some spice to the blend.

5-Card Draw works well with variants like Badugi and 2-7 triple draw.

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In most states, home poker is legal as long as the house doesn’t collect rake. Recent decisions by state courts all over the country have also made it clear that poker is increasingly viewed as a game of skill rather than one of chance, so hosting home poker games will not go down as organized gambling.

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The Bluff

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Bluffing is one of the most exciting moves a player can undertake in poker. The idea alone that you set out to get someone’s chips, holding nothing in your pocket, only with deceit and shrewdness on your side, is enthralling enough to make players commit countless mistakes in their bluff attempts.

Basically, there are two types of bluffs. The semi-bluff is a move players make on hands where they have several outs and relatively decent odds to make a monster. A semi bluff is a way to take down a pot with force, without taking the hand to showdown. In a word: if you have a hand which gives you several outs, but you’d rather just have the pot as it is right then and there, a semi bluff is called for.

Pure bluffs have nothing do with the strength of your hand. A pure bluff is usually based on the reads you get on your opponents and whatever other information you deem relevant. The c-bet is a mini-bluff itself, as it enables you to win a pot without ever having to take your hand to showdown.

C-betting (continuation betting) is a bluff which carries a high percentage success rate. That’s because it doesn’t just drop out of the clear blue sky like a donk-bluff, it is instead a way to hammer home the advantage you’ve created for yourself through the preflop bet you placed. By putting your opponents on the correct starting hand-range and recognizing the situations in which C-betting is recommended, you’ll turn this small bluff into an efficient weapon at the green felt.

Floating is another example of a pure bluff. When you ‘float’ you basically call your opponent’s bet in order to see whether or not he shows weakness on an upcoming street, weakness which you’ll then pounce on.

Floating can be used efficiently to counter the c-bet, which means that when it comes to playing the player instead of your cards, a bluff can indeed be used to bust another bluff and thus to keep your opponent honest. Floating is generally done when you find yourself heads-up on the flop against an opponent (a situation which screams for C-betting to begin with), and you have position on him. The flop misses both your hands, but being the wise-guy that he is, your opponent knows this is one hand he should definitely c-bet. The cold shower comes though when instead of mucking your cards, you flat-call his second bullet. That move gets him thinking and he begins to doubt whether or not you have the goods indeed. He checks the turn, and that’s when you make your move: you bet into him letting him know you have a hand which you’d like to play for more chips, and therefore checking around just won’t do.

It is imperative that you have position on your opponent when floating like this. Floating can be attempted from out of position too, but that way, you’ll either have to lead out by firing a bet into your opponent on the turn, or by check-raising him which is much riskier.

Probe betting is another way to take down a pot without holding anything in your pocket. Contrary to floating, probe betting is best done from early position. When you suspect there’s a flop on the table which is not likely to have helped any of your opponents, you fire out a bet, taking a jab at the pot. More often than not, such moves are crowned with success, simply because when people see you being so aggressive from the worst position at the table, they suspect you have to have something really solid.

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