From: why@kpc.com (Will Hyde)
Subject: beta test (the book)...
Organization: Kubota Pacific Computer Inc, Santa Clara, CA
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 11:44:53 GMT



Okay, one time: The call for "beta testers" 

___________________________________________
 PERCENTAGE HOLD'EM  "The Book of Numbers"
 [ (c)1992, Justin Case/Whitestone Books ]
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From the dustcover:

"...The Book of Numbers...

"...If you are looking for a basic "how to play Texas Hold'em" book,
this is not it.  

"...contains more than a hundred pages of computer-generated data, 
 derived from the play of 845,000,000 hands of Texas Hold'em.  

"...Q:  How often will AK/suited result in the best hand in a 
    nine-handed game?

"...A:  23.68% of the time.

"...The data in this book answers that question for all of the 169 
different sets of pocket cards, for all games ranging from heads-up
to eleven- handed.  

"...Q:  How many sets of pocket cards are stronger than AK/suited?

"...A:  Heads-up, Seven ... nine- or ten-handed, only Three.

"...In Appendix A, this question is answered for every hand. 

"...Expected dollar gain (or loss) is charted for every hand, in
another Appendix.

"...How often will a pair result in a Full-house (or any other
hand), and how often will it win...?  This is also charted; not 
only for the pairs, but for all combinations ..."

Also included in this volume:  The complete text of The Lowball Book. 
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 Okay, I believe all the players from the net.tournament are aware of
 what this is, as are many of rec.gambling's regular readers, but if
 not:

 I have the first couple of chapters of the "galley proofs" of the book
 (PERCENTAGE HOLD'EM) translated into an ascii version for email, and 
 the rest of it will be ready soon.  There is no way I can email the 
 whole thing, it runs to more than a megabyte (220pgs, typeset, so far), 
 about 100,000 words, counting data like "AKs/6411" as a single word.

 The data ... I have condensed (it runs to more than a hundred pages in
 the typeset version, and much of it can't be reduced to 80 cols, so it
 is necessarily incomplete) but the truly "playable" hands are pretty
 well covered in the ascii versions of all three appendices).

 Now then, I'm not giving this puppy away to rec.gambling because I love
 you guys (well, not *only* because I love you :)  I WANT SOME FEEDBACK!

 This is a "beta test" version.  If there are bugs, I wanna fix 'em; if
 there's something unclear (language or numbers you don't understand) I 
 wanna know that too, so I can rewrite or revise it.  And, frankly, one
 of the (hype!) selling points of the publisher's edition of this puppy 
 will be the fact that it has been "beta tested" (proofed) by x-number 
 of you --alledgedly-- knowledgeable computer-oriented gambler types :).

 So:

 If you want to "beta test" the book, send me your email address and
 name, (as you use them) *in the body* of your letter, like this:

 why@kpc.com
 Will Hyde


 -will (aka: justin case)

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