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Le Poker pour les nuls

Le poker est sans doute le plus mythique et le plus fascinant des jeux de cartes. Il n'y a qu'à prononcer ce mot et vous vous retrouvez assis à une table ronde dans une arrière-salle enfumée... Mais aujourd'hui, le poker est en pleine mutation et fait de plus en plus d'adeptes dans le monde. Et à présent que nous avons NOTRE champion international, l'intérêt hexagonal pour ce jeu s'est largement amplifié. Alors qu'attendez-vous pour vous y mettre ? Jeu de hasard mais surtout de stratégie, le poker est une discipline aux ressorts psychologiques très puissants. Pour gagner, il vous faudra de la patience, de la combativité, un sacré sang-froid et une bonne dose de bluff ! Avec Le Poker pour les Nuls, découvrez ce jeu extraordinaire, toutes ses règles et toutes ses formes. Grâce aux conseils des meilleurs spécialistes du poker, vous éviterez les erreurs de débutants. Histoire de ne pas passer pour un " pigeon ", profitez du lexique très complet : dans très peu de temps, vous parlerez " poker " couramment. Alors, à votre tour de jouer : vous checkez ou vous passez ?

The mathematics of Poker (Anglais)

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the bond an option markets were dominated by traders who had learned their craft by experience. They believed that there experience and intuition for trading were a renewable edge; this is, that they could make money just as they always had by continuing to trade as they always had. By the mid-1990s, a revolution in trading had occurred; the old school grizzled traders had been replaced by a new breed of quantitative analysts, applying mathematics to the "art" of trading and making of it a science. Similarly in poker, for decades, the highest level of pokers have been dominiated by players who have learned the game by playing it, "road gamblers" who have cultivated intuition for the game and are adept at reading other players' hands from betting patterns and physical tells. Over the last five to ten years, a whole new breed has risen to prominence within the poker community. Applying the tools of computer science and mathematics to poker and sharing the information across the Internet, these players have challenged many of the assumptions that underly traditional approaches to the game. One of the most important features of this new approach is a reliance on quantative analysis and the application of mathematics to the game. The intent of this book is to provide an introduction to quantitative techniques as applied to poker and to a branch of mathematics that is particularly applicable to poker, game theory. There are mathematical techniques that can be applied for poker that are difficult and complex. But most of the mathematics of poker is really not terribly difficult, and the authors have sought to make seemingly difficult topics accessible to players without a very strong mathematical background.