Re: Why online poker is better for the money player.

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:08:20 GMT, "Cat_in_awe" <rl3166pls@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>pauldepstein@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> I tend to think that people are generally quite sensitive to small
>> deviations from randomness. When a coin is tossed, I think
>> (admittedly anecdotal) that most people prefer to guess heads. And,
>> in reality, if you toss a coin a few feet and let it fall on the
>> surface, coins are more usually heads because of the way most coins
>> are weighted. I don't know the exact details of the experiment but
>> tossing a U.S penny into the air and letting it fall leads to a
>> probability of heads of 50.3% My opinion is that there is a causal
>> link between this greater heads frequency and the general preference
>> for heads.
>>
>
>I'm pretty sure that no coin is not perfectly symmetrically weighted,

I'm not certain whether you didn't say what you meant there...(<g>).

>but
>when I look at a US penny, it seems to me that the heads side has more metal
>on it than the tails with the raised picture of Lincoln. Most US coins feel
>a little bit convex on the heads side and concave on the tails side. If
>this is true it would seem this would favor getting more tails.


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David C. Ullrich
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