Decision Science

Poker Legends & Behavioral Finance Poker Legends & Behavioral Finance Understanding Mental Bias in Decision Making The power of the mind over money is rooted in mental bias. Our idiosyncratic distortions shape our reality. Just as a menu is not the meal, our mental map is not the territory. Flounders vs. Rounders The difference between playing to win versus playing socially. For the seasoned poker player, nothing is better than an opponent who sits down expecting to lose. "When you treat No Limit Hold'em as only a game of chance instead of skill, the risk of ruin is 100%." Pro Players specialize in other people’s biases, especially overconfidence. The Psychology of Tilt Tilt leads to suboptimal decision-making, where emotional investment outweighs logic. Behavi...

The Oracle: Professor Charles- Kingsfield- Nesson's Mashed Up Pulp-Free Poker Chase--- Get your BS in Holdem-"Pimp My Harvard" Harvard Law School, the West Point of capitalism, has a little creative destruction going on at Roscoe Pound 's new student-led Poker Strategic Thinking Society ( GPSTS) , led by the mad hatter-- Professor Chuckles Nesson , the Crimson's own human hangover.Here he is putting a spin on the Confucian Idea: Give a man a fish you teach him for a day; teach him how to play poker, you don't have to teach him anything! The devil's advocate advocating for the devil---online gambling! Yea baby... Oh behave Gnarles. A great many people think they are thinking about poker when they are merely rearranging their bad habits . Part card sharks, part Mother Teresas’ it’s still nice to see the education outreach of legal elite F.O.P. Friend of Poker- Alan Dershowitz ; AND Charlie Nesson , a tweeds-to-riches—Crimson Prof...

The Poker Years · Trials · Process Before Results Math Atheists Teaching by the Numbers Poker is too random to be left to chance. The cards produce outcomes. The operator builds a process strong enough to survive them. See Full Image Read the Doctrine Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Opening Thesis The table does not care about your story. It audits the decision under fluorescent lights, then deals a card that may reward genius or subsidize stupidity. This began as a set of online poker notes sponsored by bad beats at RiverStars—PokerStars—and Full Tilt. The language was loud because the education was expensive. Ready, fire, aim. Three bullets. Lights-out poker. Playahs versus ballas. A math atheist try...

Show Text Poker Legends · The Road of Trials Trials · Information Dominance Annette Obrestad: The Fifth Beatle Rock Star Poker, last-in pressure, and the asymmetric logic of betting when your opponents do not have the cards. Watch the Dublin Bluff The Power of New Americon Poker See Full Image WSOPE Champion Any Two Cards Last-In Money Fold Equity Dublin 2007 Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The old po...

Foreign Land / The Hawaii Years Math Atheists Teaching by the Numbers A field note on the limits of scores, the power of context, and what happens when Kauai, Maui, Oahu, and the Big Island become the curriculum. See Full Image Go East, Young Man Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Math atheists are not people who cannot calculate. They are people who have stopped believing that a number, by itself, explains what a learner knows. In the Ordinary World, education loves the clean confidence of a score. A percentage fits in a box. A grade travels neatly through a system. A completion rate can be placed on a dashboard and called evidence. But a number can tell you that something happened wit...