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What's Luck Got to Do with It?: The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler's Illusion
2010, Princeton University Press
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1282607499 9781282607491
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What's Luck Got to Do with It?: The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler's Illusion
2010, Princeton University Press
in English
1400834457 9781400834457
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What's luck got to do with it?: the history, mathematics, and psychology behind the gambler's illusion
2010, Princeton University Press
in English
0691138907 9780691138909
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Pits, pebbles, and bones : rolling to discover fate
The professionals : luck becomes measurable
From coffeehouses to casinos : gaming becomes big business
There's no stopping it now : from bans to bookies
Betting with trillions : the 2008 world economic calamity
The mathematics
Who's got a royal flush? : one deal as likely as another
The behavior of a coin : making predictions with probability
Someone has to win : betting against expectation
A truly astonishing result : the weak law of large numbers
The skill/luck spectrum : even great talent needs some good fortune
The analysis
Let it ride : the house money effect
Knowing when to quit : psychomanaging risk
The theories : what makes a gambler?
Hot hands : expecting long runs of the same outcome
Luck : the dicey illusion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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