{"id":161,"date":"2007-11-03T22:13:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T05:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/11\/03\/outlier-know-when-to-run\/"},"modified":"2007-11-04T10:50:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T17:50:57","slug":"outlier-know-when-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/11\/03\/outlier-know-when-to-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlier: Know when to run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.absolutepokercheats.com\/2007\/10\/graphical-representation-of-outliers.html\" title=\"Spot the outlier\">visualization of a poker cheat<\/a> at &#8220;Absolute Poker,&#8221; an online gaming site.  The site has a database of millions of poker hands, from which the author (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutepokercheats.com\/aboutthissite\" title=\"Michael Josem\">Michael Josem<\/a>) chose only those with over 500 hands, a total of 5,251 players.  The players were plotted on two axes: VPIP (&#8220;voluntarily put into pot&#8221;, a percentage measure of how often a player puts money into the pot) and win rates (measured, in the jargon of poker nerds, as &#8220;big bets per hundred&#8221; or &#8220;BB\/100&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutepokercheats.com-a.googlepages.com\/vpipvbb.jpg\" title=\"Absolute Poker cheater\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutepokercheats.com-a.googlepages.com\/vpipvbb.jpg\" alt=\"Absolute Poker analysis\" height=\"364\" width=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to be loose and lucky, but it&#8217;s impossible to believe the guy in the upper right hand corner, the red dot outlier.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutepokercheats.com\/500800vpip.GIF\/500800vpip-full.jpg\" title=\"only 500 - 800 hands\">Another view<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great visualization of a poker cheat at &#8220;Absolute Poker,&#8221; an online gaming site. The site has a database of millions of poker hands, from which the author (Michael Josem) chose only those with over 500 hands, a total of 5,251 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/11\/03\/outlier-know-when-to-run\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visualization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-2B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}