I couldn’t find the kind of data I needed, so I am assembling my own data set. What I’m looking for are online poker players who have been tracking their hands using Poker Tracker software.
I’ve set up a website for people who are interested in contributing their own poker hands to the database. It is http://www.pokernomics.com/. It gives you all the details.
You are probably thinking to yourself, “what is in it for me?” First, you will be advancing science (or whatever it is you call my research). Second, we will analyze your data and hopefully give you some ideas about how to be a better poker player. Third, while supplies last, we are giving out Freakonomics t-shirts and signed copies of the book to people who provide us with big hand histories.
Rest assured, we will handle the data with great care. We will not give or sell your data to anyone else. Nearly forty players have already contributed more than two million hands to me.
So please, poker players of the world unite, http://www.pokernomics.com/needs you.
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(Not that I’m speaking for Lebitt or anything)
Steven,
qualityg doesn’t play on-line, just good old fashioned basement, bar and blind pig games.
So, I’m sending son of qualityg, Economic student at Michigan State who plays frequently, too frequently for a Dad that is paying his tuition.
Off to a Friday Night Game.
qg
Princess Leia: there is a link,
http://www.freakonomics.com/2005/07/freakonomics-of-poker.html
Silly me! I get it…
Steven, welcome back from the UK!
Most of my hand histories are from tournaments. (Some multi-table, but mostly one-table sit-and-goes.) Are you accepting those or just ring games?
Thanks, Anon, and one more thing before I go, isn’t on-line poker completely different from the real thing? If so, how effective would your data be? I think this was mentioned that last poker post, but then again, I am not THAT sophisticated about the game…
Dude, you give a whole new meaning to Trivial Pursuits.
DF
http://www.debfrisch.com
I’ll volunteer myself as a research subject. My moves, demeanor and personality traits will function as an inverse model for any poker student.
In other words. I could be an example of what not to do. In the genetic and environmental lotto that is life, whatever good poker players have, I was given none of. I don’t even understand the motivation for playing.