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Exerpt from the book Poker, Gaming, & Life: Paying for Information
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For instance, if you are dealt 19 and his upcard is eight or less, you would stand whether you knew his hole card or not. If you are dealt 14 and the dishonest dealer shows his ten in the hole with his six upcard, you will stand just as you would if you hadn't seen his card.
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Furthermore, it frequently can occur that even though you change your strategy because you know that his hole card does, it does you no good, and may even cost you money. When the dealer has 20, your hitting 18 rather than standing as usual will rarely help. So you can see that even obviously important information, such as what is the blackjack dealer's hole card, is not as valuable as it might appear when you take into account that it often will not help you, and sometimes will even hurt you.
If you add to this the possibility that the information might not be percent accurate, it is worth less still. One of the plays that some experienced poker players make is to bet or raise early with certain mediocre hands in order to "find out" what they are up against. The rationale is that if their opponent raises or reraises, they can dump their hand early.
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This saves future bets that they would have had to put into the pot had they not solidified their information by putting in an extra bet or two in the earlier round. So, in essence, they are "paying" for information much as in the blackjack example.
But are they paying too much? In general, I think they are, and the reasons are analogous to what we said concerning blackjack holecard information. However, the overall quality is very high. The second part, appropriately enough called Life, will seem a radical departure for Sklansky if you hadn't read any of his more recent articles from the, now defunct, Poker World magazine.
Poker Gaming and Life by David Sklansky
He really branches out here, dealing with issues of politics, ethics, everyday logic, and others. Even though this section is much weaker than the rest of the book fortunately, it's also much shorter , he still does have enough interesting ideas to keep me from thinking that I've wasted my time reading it.
It's my opinion, however, that he is not nearly as expert on these topics as he is on poker and gaming, although that he could be so would be truly astounding. In this section, I think he occasionally succumbs to logical fallacies or inconsistencies that cast a shadow over some of his conclusions.
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Nonetheless, his thought processes are still far more accurate and disciplined than most other people I've encountered. Overall, I really liked his essays. I think that David Sklansky is the single most important poker author of all time.