...WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 3 CASE STUDY: TEXAS HOLD'EM STA-201: PRINCIPLES OF STATISTICS a. The probability that you are dealt pocket aces is 1/221, or 0.00452 to three significant digits. If you studied either Section 4.5 and 4.6 or Section 4.8, verify that probability. 1st Card- 4 cards that are aces out of the 52 cards in the deck; so 4/52 = 0.0769 or slightly less than an 8% chance that the first card is an Ace. 2nd Card- Since first card dealt was an Ace, there are only 3 aces out of 51 card remaining; so 3/51 = 0.0588 or slightly less than a 6% chance that a second ace will be dealt. Therefore to find the probability that these two events will happen, you will need to take the results of both and multiply them together. 0.0769 x 0.0588= 0.0452172 rounded to three significant digits is 0.00452 is the probability of getting dealt pocket aces. So the probability of 1 in 221 is correct. b. Using the result from part (a), obtain the probability that you are dealt "pocket kings." Same probability as part (a). I find that it is unnecessary to repeat the exact same calculations since the result will be the same as part (a.). However, since the problem is quite vague, I decided that calculating the result of pocket kings after pocket aces are drawn, is more fitting. 1st Card Ace- 4 cards that are aces out of the 52 cards in the deck; so 4/52 = 0.0769 or slightly less than an 8% chance that the first card is an Ace. 2nd Card Ace- Since first card dealt was an Ace, there...
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...Internet Texas Hold'em Winning Strategies from an Internet Pro First Edition By Matthew Hilger Introduction “If you can't spot the sucker in your first half-hour at the table, then you are the sucker.” This is a common poker saying spoken by Matt Damon in the classic poker movie Rounders. I used to play in a tournament every Sunday night in Costa Rica with some of the best players in the world. Unfortunately, I had no idea at the time who those players were. Hopefully this book will help you spot the sucker rather than be the sucker. It takes a lot of experience and study of the game before one realizes what it takes to play at an advanced level. Everyone needs to start somewhere. This book should increase your learning curve, but there is no substitute for experience. The Internet is an excellent vehicle to develop your game, no matter if you just play low limits a few hours a week or strive to develop into a world-class player. The following story gives you a glimpse into my poker life and the struggles I went through before I started playing on the Internet. My first memory of poker is sneaking out into the woods when I was about eight or nine years old to play penny poker with my friends. In middle school, I remember getting sent to the principal's office for playing craps in the bathroom. In high school, I was assistant manager at a local movie theater and one night my friends and I played poker in the projectionist booth while the movies were playing. To my...
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...Internal Preview: In order for us to fully understand the benefits of playing Texas Hold’em, we must first explore the problems associated with gambling. Second, we’ll explore what’s causing everyone to play Texas Hold’em. Finally, we’ll offer some simple solutions as to how you can maximize your winnings. Transition Statement: So first, let’s discuss problems associated with gambling. II. Main body 1: Problems 1. Addicting Claim: Gambling addiction is a problem. Grounds: According to a 2011 article by Dr. Stanton Peele, Is gambling Addictive? What do addicted gamblers look like?, Dr. Peele claims that, “an activity not involving a substance can be addictive.” Warrant: Stanton Peele Ph.d, J.D. has written books on addiction and has credibility on the issue. Bad debt Claim: Gambling is not typically a good source of income and if not done responsibly, can lead to large debt. Grounds: According to a 2012 ESPN article, written by Bill Simmons, Charles Barkley admitted to squandering millions of dollars away at casinos. Warrant: Espn sports analysts are very diligent and professional. Transition Statement: Now that we have a grasp on the problems associated with gambling, let’s discuss whats causing the craze over Texas Hold em. III. Main body 2: Cause Popularity Claim: Texas hold em is becoming a world wide phenomenon, because it’s fun. Grounds: There are multiple major Texas hold em events including the WSOP, and the WPT. Warrant: These tournaments are widely...
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...I did this for two years until I open my own business High Definition Systems and Installations. It did not work out and I started doing Condominium Remodeling in a community called the Villa’s in Roseville, California a very nice place. I did this for the next two years and loved it. Since then I have trying to get my act together but I think I am at the point where I can focus on school to get my associates degree. My goal is to get my associate degree so I will be able to find a career that I will have work year round and get paid appropriately. For one time in my life be a role model to my siblings. My hobbies/interests include, go fishing in the Sacramento River, American River and Folsom Lake. I like to Play No Limit Texas Hold em poker online with friends. I also like to play live games at Thunder Valley Casino. I spend a lot of time visiting with friends and...
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...Part 1A: Industry Analysis Broad Environment: PEST Analysis The Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) area and specifically Denton County is experiencing rapid economic development and population growth due to the close proximity of airports and many large and convenient transportation paths which link the Town of Cross Roads with an abundance of employment locations in cities such as Dallas, Frisco, Denton, and McKinney. DFW has experienced a large increase in population size in the past 50 years or so. There have been several economic pressures such as a rise in the number of foreclosures and diminishing credit. DFW is known as one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the United States, and from 1990 to 2000 it grew by approximately 29% and gained a little over one million residents. From 2000-2009 the population grew to nearly 6,637,230. DFW is adding nearly 100,000 new residents annually. One population movement trend in DFW in recent years is for people to move away from the busy downtown city areas into less dense communities like Frisco and Little Elm and even smaller country towns like Cross Roads. Planned communities are very popular now as well. McKinney is rated the second best place in the country to live in 2012 by Money Magazine and USA Today named Denton in 2012 Best Small Towns in America. These towns along 380 are bringing in residents and increasing traffic. Specific Industry: Five Forces Analysis Some of Cross Roads main competitors are Savannah, Paloma Creek...
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...Is that gambling should be legalized At major established gambling web sites, online gambling is just as safe for your money as playing in a regular casino. It's usually free to set up an account, and after that you deposit as much or as little as you'd like using your checking account or credit card and use those funds to bet. Internet security has come a long way, and the online gambling community takes extra precautions to ensure your money, and your winnings, are protected. The games available for online gambling are even more varied than those in traditional casinos. You will find virtual tables and rooms for dozens of types of poker: stud, Texas Hold 'Em, Caribbean Stud, Video Poker, Three-Card Poker and just about any poker variation you can think of. For simpler gambling, you can play online slot machines, blackjack, roulette, or any of hundreds of click-and-win games. The online gambler looking for a challenge will enjoy Baccarat. With online gambling, the possibilities are endless! Major gambling sites attract tens of thousands of visitors in a day. There are even thousands of sites for those unwilling or unable to play for money: Many online gambling sites operate on a game credit basis, and you can play just for the fun of it without risking anything. So, whether you want to impress people with your big gambling scores or get a shot at big money online, check out online gambling! You no longer need to live in a place where there is a casino. With a computer and...
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...Inventec Corporation Whoever owns the distribution channel owns the business. We are just the guys behind the scenes . - Inventec executive Louis Woo In Inventec Corp.'s gleaming new manufacturing compound on the outskirts of Shanghai's Pudong district, six automated assembly lines hummed with state of the art equipment. Hermetically sealed machines dispensed adhesive onto tiny boards. ext, high speed machines picked micro chip components off tapes and placed them onto the boards. Other machines soldered, cleaned and tested, until the guts of a notebook personal computer (PC) popped out to be encased in black plastic or metallic silver by human hands. Each line produced a new notebook computer every 16 seconds, for a combined output of 13,500 PCs per day . However, none of these PCs carried the Inventec name. Instead, the notebooks produced in this Chinese factory bore the brand logos of three competing multinational computer companies. Each PC was packaged in a brand manufacturer box, and shipped to client distribution centers around the world. Some were shipped via UPS from the Shanghai factory directly to consumers in the United States, with return address labels bearing the name and U.S. address of the brand company. Inventec, with annual revenues topping 150 billion ew Taiwan Dollars (NT$)a and market capitalization valued at over $1 billion, was one of Taiwan's leading Original Design Manufacturers (ODM). ODMs designed and manufactured electronic products such as computers...
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...There was a vast number of ethical issues raised in the movie “Enron-the Smartest Guys in the Room” but the four I am going to focus on are listed below. Art Anderson, Ken Lay and all of the other executives did a number of unethical things which ultimately brought down Enron and affected thousands of employees and their futures. The bottom line was that each and every one of them acted out of greed for the almighty dollar. 1- Encouraging employees to invest and buy stock in Enron when they knew the truth about the lack of value in the stock. As an employee you trust in your management to make the best choices both for you and for the business to succeed. Ken Lay and other executives strongly encouraged Enron employees to invest in it’s stock. They all knew that the company was not doing well and yet they encouraged others to spend their hard earned money investing in it all the while they are selling their shares of stock. Employees trusted and relied on their decisions and in the end it ended up hurting them. With Ken Lay publicly encouraging its employees and other investors to invest in Enron’s stock he is affecting their future and retirement. These employees didn’t earn nearly as much as he did and he is convincing them to invest their money into an entity that was set to fail by Lay himself. I don’t believe any proper ethical alternative action could have been taken in this situation. Of course you want your employees to have faith in the company they work for...
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...6 Weird Habits Of Successful People December 18, 2012 We call people weird because they do things differently than we would. Seth Godin wears those brightly colored but mismatched socks. Steve Jobs’ work uniform was a black turtleneck and jeans. Look around and you can see the obvious differences in a lot of successful people. What most business owners don’t see when they look at successful people are the habits they’ve developed. Leonard DaVinci slept two hours at a time in four-hour intervals. Charles Dickens would only write and sleep facing north. Some of their weirdness was superstition, but a lot of it wasn’t. Here are six weird habits of successful people. 1.They think backward. Successful people start at the finish. Most of us have been taught to take one step, then the next, and the next until we arrive at our destination or goal. But successful people, like rocket scientists, actually clearly define the outcome they want first, and then reverse engineer the steps they need to take to get there. 2. They like to repeat themselves, a lot. They repeat themselves a lot. If you’re pre-vinyl and never heard a broken record, think “repeat” or “loop.” Successful people don’t stop when they have a success. When they succeed, they try to figure out ways to repeat that success. 3. They cut corners. Once successful people figure out how to repeat success, then they figure out how to get the same result faster, easier and cheaper. There’s a fine line between cutting corners...
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...believe in capital punishment, it is beneficial for society as a whole. Capital punishment provides a strong deterrence against future crimes. Capital punishment protects the rights of victims and saves costs of tax payers. The death penalty is a legal appropriate measure in the U.S. legal system. In a perfect world, there would be no serious predatory crime, none enough to have heated debates concerning capital punishment anyway. But this world is not perfect, and unfortunately we do have offenders who just have no place in this world. Today, one of the most controversial, debated issue within the Criminal Justice system is the use of capital punishment, also known as, the death penalty. As stated in Procon.org; ‘Thirty-two states hold the death penalty as a legal punishment. Capital punishment, is the execution of a criminal by the state in which the...
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...C228-Community Health Nursing-Task 1 Misty Sherman Western Governors University Identification of Community Brazoria County, Tx is located just south of Harris county, extending from Houston to the Gulf of Mexico. It includes the cities of Pearland, Manvel, Alvin, Angleton, Sweeny, Lake Jackson, and Freeport. Of these, Angleton is the county seat, but Pearland has the greatest population (City-data.com, 2015). As of 2012, Brazoria County contained a population of 77% urban and 23% rural (City-data.com, 2015). Of the residents of Brazoria County, 63% are between the ages of 18 and 64 (United States Census Bureau, 2010). The leading causes of death for the county are heart disease, cancer, motor vehicle accidents, diabetes, and suicide (Texas Department of State Health Services, 2013). According to the 2014 health rankings for the county, Brazoria was above the national benchmark in smoking, obesity, physical inactivity, excessive drinking, alcohol-impaired driving deaths, sexually transmitted diseaseas, and teen births (County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2015). The industry overview consists of health care and social assistance, educational services, retail trade, accommodation and food services, manufacturing, professional, scientific, and technical services, and public administration with health care and social assistance being the primary industry (City-data.com, 2015). Adult obesity grew in the county from 27% in 2013 to 29% in 2014 (County Health Rankings & Roadmaps...
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...American men expressed their thoughts without ending up behind bars or beaten to death. Once Rap became mainstream many listeners let go of the beat and listened to the message behind the beat, they started to focus on the lyrics. While being freed from slavery, African American were still slaves to the abuse and being mistreated in American and many didn’t have a fire behind the anger to make a stand. Rap lyrics that held a strong uplifting message gave many people those flames to stand and fight for their rights. In an article I recently read that Rap is linguistics major’s dream while also being their worst nightmare. I didn’t read on to see why the writer stated that because I held my own beliefs as to why this may be true. While rap lyrics hold so much meaning to those listeners it can also be confusing to those who do not agree with the rapper’s lyrics. Within rap there is also many dialects and registers. When listening to a local rapper it can be much easier to understand what he says when he uses a semantic change, while listeners from a different region may not understand what the rapper is trying to say. There is...
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...Cultural Assessment Purnell Model: Cultural Assessment Ashley Bell Western New Mexico University August 29, 2010 Cultural Assessment Purnell Model Overview and Heritage S. R. is a 31-year old soft spoken Filipino female. Her primary language is English. Her family dialect of Tagalog is understood, but not spoken fluently. Tagalog is the national language in the Philippine society, and English is the second official language. (McBride, 2001) Presently she resides in Pearland Texas with her husband and 20 month old daughter. Born and raised in Webster Texas she is of Filipino ancestry, and considers herself “Asian American” (personal communication, August 20, 2010). Her father and mother were born in the Philippines. They came to the United States two years prior to her birth seeking educa-tion and career opportunities (personal communication, August 20, 2010). S. R. is of middle class income, allowing her to afford the essentials of life without difficulties; providing her family with full health benefits through her employer. She is a Registered Nurse, with a bachelors in nursing and early education. S. R. worked as a first grade teacher for two years prior to going obtaining her BSN. Current working conditions expose her to anesthetic agents, communicable diseases, radiation and germicidal chemicals (personal communication, August 20, 2010). Biocultural Ecology S. R. identifies herself with the Filipino race. She has light brown skin, a round...
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...Simpson, Cinimol Teju, Ann Brennan, Jessica Ramaley Grand Canyon University Community Assessment and Analysis - Rio Grande The lower Rio Grande Valley is located along the United States and Mexican border. The lower Rio Grande Valley consists of four counties along the southernmost tip of Texas (Migrant Health Promotion, 2012). These counties include metropolitan areas such as Rio Grande City, McAllen, Harlingen, and Brownsville (Migrant Health Promotion, 2012). The Rio Grande Valley is nestled right along the Rio Grande River which is why the area is so abundant in agriculture. In phenomenological communities, place is emphasized more by the sense of belonging among the members (Maurer & Smith, 2009). The lower Rio Grande Valley has over one million people in which 90 percent of the population is Hispanic (Migrant Health Promotion, 2012). The Valley is known to be home to one of the largest concentrations of farm workers in the United States (Migrant Health Promotion, 2012). A considerable amount of farm workers travel from Mexico to work in agriculture in the United States and because of this, the members of this community can relate. Four counties in the southern tip of Texas along the Mexican border make up the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Over 1 million people make up this population with 85 to 98% being Hispanic. It is made up of over 2,000 colonias and most of residents. Colonia is a Spanish term for community along the United States-Mexican border. These are...
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...Izmir, Turkey – The Pearl of the Aegean Janet P. Santos Walden University August 16, 2014 Izmir became the third largest city in the country of Turkey, which is comparable in area to the state of Massachusetts and is approximately size as the state of Texas. During both, the Roman and Byzantine - Ottoman Periods in which Izmir was averted from adversary possession on September 9, 1922 during the War of Independence (Index Mundi. com, 2013). Turkey is located in the northeastern quadrant of the Mediterranean Sea and also in the Southeast portion of Europe in addition to the Southwest segment of Asia. It also touches to the North near the Black Sea, in addition to the West near the Aegean Sea. Turkey also neighbors countries such as Greece and Bulgaria, which borders to her west. Along the North and Northwest, and through the Black Sea she has the following countries bordering: Russia, Ukraine, and Romania. To the East she has the following countries bordering: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran. Finally to the South she has Syria and Iraq bordering her. Lastly, the following bodies of water divide her and they include: the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosporus (Index Mundi. com, 2013). Izmir, just like the entire country of Turkey, has many disadvantages primarily due to their geological weakness known as the Aegean plate boundaries (Komuscu, 1995). Turkey sits literally amid two massive tectonic plates. The Eurasia and The Africa/Arabia, which are...
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