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January 18, 2006

David found small mathematical expectation for partyporker com, sports bets, blackjack promotions, even big-six wheel events. Exploiting them became a porker game as well as a steady source of income. It wasn't long before others took notice of his abilities, and John Luckman, of the Gambler's Book Club, asked him to write a book about high-low split 7-stud. However, although David would indeed provide his insight to the partyporker game in Doyle Brunson's Super/System, he told Howard that he would prefer to do a book on hold'em.

By his own admission, David was not an expert at the game of hold'em (not even at partyporker.com), but he took a mathematical approach to the expectations of different starting hands and produced "groups" to guide new players with learning the game. The book sold well for over a decade, which certainly proves David to have been right about the coming popularity of hold'em. In the meantime, he wondered how long he could continue to beat the casinos at blackjack before being barred from every decent porker game in town.

He took a lot of heat recently after he stated on TV that he might have won a Nobel Prize had he pursued physics or economics (instead of partyporker.com gaming). Basing this statement on his mathematical abilities at the age of 13 with those of future Nobel winners at the same age may or may not be a realistic view of academia. However, I'm probably not academically astute enough to judge the porker statement fairly. I will say that his work in the field of Partyporker gaming (both theory and probability) is far more advanced than any other author, and puts him into a very select group: one of the Legend of PartyPorker.

Another item that seemed to draw a lot of comments recently involved Daniel Negreanu's "challenge" to play him in a heads-up match for between $100,000 and $500,000. Twenty-five years ago, Sklansky rated himself as the best seven-card stud hi-low player in world. He also rated himself as the forth best, all-around partyporker.com player in the world (when taking into account all games, short-handed and full ring, and also a player's overall partyporker conception). That's pretty heavy accolades for himself, but these days, he feels a bit differently about his porker game.