The Evolution of Marked Cards and Poker Analyzers
The Evolution of Marked Cards and Poker Analyzers The game has captured our national imagination. But why? The answer is that poker has become a game of sleight-of-hand, of bluffing and deception. These elements make the game so compelling. In the beginning, poker was a simple parlor game in which 20 cards were distributed to four players, and a player’s victory depended on who had the best pair of matching cards or three or more of the same kind. Over time, the game grew in popularity, and it was natural that it would attract eggheads like mathematician John von Neumann, who developed his 1928 article on the Theory of Parlor …