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What Does the Fox Say? Analytics in Poker
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English - August 06, 2019 15:13 - 58 minutes - 107 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSports interview entrepreneurship business health leadership news comedy entrepreneur culture politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Scott Blumstein – Poker Player
Sunny Mehta – Former NHL Executive
Bill Chen – Quantitative Researcher, Jagger Analytics
Maria Konnikova – Author, Journalist, and Ambassador, PokerStars Team Pro
Nate Silver – Statistician, Author, and Founder, FiveThirtyEight
Given the massive set of possible decision points – 10^14 in Limit Hold ‘em and 10^160 in No-limit Hold ‘em – poker lends itself naturally to the implementation of analytics. Moreover, the rise of analytics’ prominence in poker has somewhat mirrored the rise of analytics in other major professional sports in the 21st century. This panel, led by Nate Silver, brings together a diverse set of backgrounds in analytics and professional gaming that will explore the crossover between these sports and poker – looking into what we can learn from poker that can be applied to sports and sports analytics.