{"id":366,"date":"2011-09-08T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gwae.apps-1and1.com\/raisers-edge"},"modified":"2016-07-04T00:50:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T00:50:42","slug":"raisers-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/raisers-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Raiser’s Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was in college in Chicago in the 70s. \u00a0When not in class I would spend my time at a bridge, and backgammon club called The North Club. \u00a0The club was filled with bridge bums, backgammon sharks, gin rummy kibitzers, and in the afternoons we would get an influx of options traders. \u00a0At that time the\u00a0Black\u2013Scholes formula<\/a>\u00a0was new, and the smart guys, the guys who understood the math, were\u00a0vacuuming\u00a0up the money. Huge edges were to be had because these guys were playing the game at an entirely different level.<\/p>\n

That was what I kept thinking about as I read,\u00a0The Raiser’s Edge: Tournament-Poker Strategies for Today’s Aggressive Game<\/a>\"\". \u00a0Because of the\u00a0internet where players can play 10 or 20 tables at a time at double the speed of a live table, and tracking software that has databases of millions of hands, and quants applying game theory to poker, the game has taken a giant leap forward. \u00a0This book is not for\u00a0beginners. \u00a0It is dense, has many charts, and will need to be read many times to be fully understood. \u00a0But this is the future of poker. \u00a010 years ago you never would have seen a chapter like, “Equilibrium solutions for 3 and 4-betting.” \u00a0I believe you will start to see more and more chapters like that. \u00a0Just as computers are now the best chess players, and backgammon players, within 10 years I believe computers will be the best poker players.<\/p>\n

The authors in this book talk about how fast the game is evolving. \u00a0Things that were working and profitable a year ago no longer are. \u00a0If you want to try to ride this wave, to get on the curve since no one can be ahead of it anymore, then you need to read this book, and the avalanche of books like it that are sure to come.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"youtube\"<\/a>\"instagram\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was in college in Chicago in the 70s. \u00a0When not in class I would spend my time at a bridge, and backgammon club called The North Club. \u00a0The club was filled with bridge bums, backgammon sharks, gin rummy kibitzers, and in the afternoons we would get an influx of options traders. \u00a0At that time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2,14,15,398],"tags":[636,44,635,641,55,643,618,259,639,85,617,644,457,640,645,637,642,145,255,263,634,647,186,638,646],"yoast_head":"\nThe Raiser's Edge - Gambling With An Edge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/raisers-edge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Raiser's Edge - 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