| Title: | Jokers Gone Wild: Inconsistencies In Wild-Card Poker |
| Speaker: | Mark Bollman Professor of Mathematics Mathematics & Computer Science Albion College Albion, MI |
| Abstract: | Poker is a name given to a wide variety of card games where the objective is to obtain the best hand--however "best" might be described by the game's rules. Some variations on poker use one or more designated "wild" cards, which can be assigned any value that best benefits the player. From a mathematician's perspective, adding wild cards to the standard 52-card deck changes the probabilities of some poker hands, in some cases so much so that the traditional ranking of hands is no longer correct. In this talk, we shall examine a few of the inconsistencies that have been identified with wild cards and look at the mathematical approaches to resolving them. |
| Location: | Palenske 227 |
| Date: | 10/6/2022 |
| Time: | 3:30 PM |
@abstract{MCS:Colloquium:MarkBollman:2022:10:6,
author = "{Mark Bollman}",
title = "{Jokers Gone Wild: Inconsistencies In Wild-Card Poker}",
address = "{Albion College Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium}",
month = "{6 October}",
year = "{2022}"
}