What are the odds that poker can be explained by statistical physics, much the same as a variety of other complex systems? They`re pretty good, according to physicist Clément Sire of Université of Toulouse and CNRS in France, who demonstrates in a recent paper that many of the statistical properties of poker tournaments are universal. Sire`s model makes connections between poker and evolution, extreme value statistics and the physical model of persistence.
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