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To: Solon who wrote (47065)	2/21/2014 1:10:23 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

Poker is as you say a combination of probabilities (easy part) and seeing the game. I have been playing for 60 years. I think I just see the game better than the rest of them. Sort of the "expert mind" trip. I have also read a lot of books on poker by the best players in the world and studied it. I am just a normal guy who made a point of learning the game. Most don't do that. One difference might be my background in statistics. I have read we are hard wired for pattern recognition, but interestingly not for probability? I am pretty good with probability and it comes easy for me, but I will take the researchers word for it. And one can see the problem people have with probability with all the people who buy lottery tickets for those big super lotteries :).