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Increasing the number of community cards does make it harder to solve If we take texas holdem and increase the number of hole cards to 3 and reduce the flop to 2 cards the game becomes around 14 times harder to solve. While this may seem like a significant improvement it really doesn't help much...

8 card poker For the same stacks and betting format this game (NLP8 A variant) is around 23 million times harder to solve than NLHE if the number of players is 2. pdf (version 100) https://app.box.com/s/wcip46w5lkqr4ivp529c5rmgkqq6gd7v odt (version 100)...

While texas holdem is a very good card game and is still relevant it is definitely showing its age now with it being easy to use real-time assistance to cheat against other players. The game is also overly analyzed with does take a bit of fun out of it. It's less interesting when you can...

RTT goes down in flames It was never a good tracker of course but some people there were still in denial about it. For some reason all they did was to share rar files which is a pretty bad approach to be honest but i guess some people are going to defend that somehow. Their mod has been active...

If you use an incorrect premise then anything you conclude using that premise will not be on solid ground. It is however possible to arrive at the right decision using fallacious reasoning (it actually happens a lot more often than you think). A case can even be made for not having healthcare...

That's not really the problem with utilitarianism. The problem with utilitarianism is that it goes against natural human desires since people generally do not want to simply maximize the overall well-being (whatever that is) for the entire planet. People naturally care more for themselves and...

Video poker can still be beaten but it's getting less and less viable As players have figured out ways to take advantage of it casinos have taken away the better machines. You are probably not even going to be able to make minimum wage from playing that, doesn't seem to be worth putting effort into.

Phil Ivey 'won' 30 million $ via edgesorting but then lost in court He was only able to withdraw 10 million $ and then he was ordered to pay back even that after losing in court. He did however hide the money in offshore bank accounts but eventually settled with borgata...

Illegal cheating There is of course illegal methods to make money from casinos. Typically this ends very badly for people engaged with it but there are rare exceptions where the ones pulling it off kinda got away with it.

Card counting in blackjack For a long time it has been possible to actually get a small edge against the house via card counting and other strategies at some casinos (typically physical ones) but of course the people discovered to do that will be barred from playing more if they think they have...

Sports betting With a lot of online casinos you are not actually betting against other players, instead you are betting against the house and this results in some of their users being able to gamble their to over time win more and more money from them. What those sites ended up doing was to...

Poker freerolls Unfortunately almost all the freerolls have disappeared here in Sweden at least (after the government passed some laws to get more money from the online casinos which ended up also targeting poker). But there is still bet365 here that does provide a 50$ freeroll every day...

Bonus hunting Casino companies do want to attract new costumers and one common strategy for doing so is to provide various bonuses and often if you can utilize those bonuses to temporarily gamble with positive EV. Note that you shouldn't do this if you know you are prone to problem gambling...

Casino companies obviously want people to lose money, they do not even want to give people a chance to beat them. Often with online casinones the games are openly rigged against the gamblers in the sense that if you keep playing there you will eventually lose everything. There is however...

The reason people tend to be against things like sex-dolls or animated porn for pedophiles is that they hade pedophilia and pedophiles and want people with those sexual urges to suffer. It's not actually about protecting children and never was...

Ways to deal with pedophilic disorder from best to worst Ideally you want to prevent people from being born into becoming pedophiles in the first place so if there are genes that do promote pedophilic disorder we need to consider eliminating those genes from the gene pool. This is something we...

Sam Seder recently got destroyed He recently did a 1 vs 20 debate and while he did fine for the most part he ended up eventually exposing himself for not being able to explain what he based his moral/political views on. He moved the goalpost multiple times...

Selecting and educating for competence People will go though a selection and education process that is vastly superior to anything currently offered by even the most elite universities. Rather than being specialized (like university education tends to be) it will be generalized and include...

Pure elite rule and diversity Pure elite rule actually works the best when the ruling elite is diverse in terms of how they think, that makes it more likely someone will come up with a good path forward and it makes it less likely that a bad decision is going to be made due to a majority having...

Achieving proper pure elite rule It seems that no matter how the system of governance is set up it will eventually collapse into dictatorship if it starts out democratic. The problem is that typically when democracy collapses it does not result in proper pure elite rule, often instead the result...