Variance and Poker "A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean value. It is a mathematical expectation of the average squared deviations from the mean." Answers.com Basically what this means is that say you expect a certain result (x) to be the
Small-ball Poker Basically small ball poker is where you make small preflop raises in an attempt to control the pot size when you have 20-25M or higher. This sounds simple enough but there is really a lot more to it than that. Small ball in combination with LAG(loose aggr
Independent Chip Model ICM (Independent Chip Modeling) is a very valuable resource in a tournament player's poker tool kit. The math behind ICM can be called complicated, at best, but the basic concept is pretty simple.
Google Docs Stats Tracking Google Docs has a spreadsheet feature that is very similar to Excel or OpenOffice's Calc. The main reason that I use google docs instead of Calc for this is that I travel a lot for work and really like being able to access my stats from anywhere. That and