Last week I described the applicability of Trait Semantics to live Texas Hold’em poker at the theoretical level. With this article we begin the practical application of the new paradigm, where Maths assumes an instrumental role and not a guiding paradigm.
Trait Semantics applied to live Texas Hold’em poker
Contextually to live Texas Hold’em poker and considering the Theory of poker [Sklansky, 1987], it means of defining the smallest amount of information that can be expressed by the smallest constitutive unit of the fifty-two card deck. A further prerogative is that it must not be broken down further and that the author defines “Information Unit – Ui”. It is a question of breaking down the deck by each of its minimal constitutive parts, the one that Hjelmslev (1943), in the field of linguistics, defines a phoneme. It’s possible to consider each elementary component of the deck as a letter of a fifty-two letter alphabet. Each of them needs to combine with the others in order to give rise to information.
The Information Value – Vi in live Texas Hold’em poker
The next step is to quantify the Information Value – Vi of Ui, defined as the potentially expressible quantitative capacity of information of each individual element present within the deck. Using the definition of information[Anolli, 2012], the author calculates Vi in function of the Information completeness theorem – TCI – in poker for each phase of the spot. It follows, therefore, that the information value is expressed in the following formula:
Vi=Ic/(Ui*M)
where Ic corresponds to the total of information contained in the pack, expressed as a percentage consistently with the “probability value” of the reference definition, as well as 100%. Ui corresponds to the single component of the deck consisting of 52 elements. With this value, the formula expresses the portion of information that can be expressed by each single element and to which it’s potentially possible to access.
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Pietro Semeraro – Jack Bonora
Transl. by Pietro Semeraro
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