Showing posts with label probabiltiy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label probabiltiy. Show all posts

Friday, April 2, 2010

On Statistical Anomalies

(the table lists Hand #, Table Name, My Hole cards, Winner, Pot)

Having nothing to do with linguistics, I challenge my fellow online poker player Nate Silver to walk through the probability that I would be dealt pocket 22, 33, 44 successively in NLHE. I have proof positive that it happened (see image above). And I note that the probability of being dealt any three pairs in a row should be the same as the probability of being dealt three consecutive pairs; it's us silly humans who care about the difference between 22 and KK, not the poker gods.

TV Linguistics - Pronouncify.com and the fictional Princeton Linguistics department

 [reposted from 11/20/10] I spent Thursday night on a plane so I missed 30 Rock and the most linguistics oriented sit-com episode since ...