Doing an Online Poker Experiment… Anyone Want to Participate?
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Trying to conduct an experiment about mood and luck, if you play online poker and want to participate here is what you can do:
The next time you play record the following:
1. The mood you are in on a scale of 0-10, with 0 being extremely depressed and 10 being very joyous.
2. A self-rating at the type of luck you usually have in life (0-10) with ten being extremely lucky.
3. A list of all dealt cards. For example if I was dealt a Three of Hearts and Ace of Spades I would write down 3hAs. Please record as many dealt hands as possible.
- also if your mood shifts feel free to record that. A sample response may look like this
Mood: 7
Luck: 5
8h9s
4sKh
Qs7d
5c4c
Mood:5
7d9h
AdKd
etc.
also if anyone knows a site that assigns numerical values to different dealt hands based on strength that would be helpful in calculating the results. Thanks, hope to hear from you.
December 9th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Just a suggestion. I doubt you are going to get a lot of responses for this experiment. In the heat of battle at the poker table, no one is going to take the time do write down how they are feeling on a particular hand.
I think you would have better luck asking people to keep their hand history information which is provided by the major poker sites. You should have them read thru their hand history right after they finish a session and try to remember their emotional state at the time of each hand in the session.
Just a suggestion.
December 9th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Here is a link to a site that provides a numerical value for each starting hand dealt. It is called the Texas Holdem Dynamic Point Count Super Strategy.
Very similar to the Goren Point Count Strategy used in bridge, this system values each starting hand based not just on the cards, but also on the type game, stakes, types of players, your table position, and any actions on the table.
Here is the link: