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Poker

Pay Attention: Why Details Matter in No-Limit Holdem

January 5, 2016 by Scott

Here is the situation: At a nine handed NL Holdem Table, you are holding (A♦ T♦) in the Big Blind (BB) and you choose to call a pre-flop raise from a player who opened under the gun (UTG). The flop comes (K♦ 7 ♥ 4♦), giving you the nut flush...

Sports

A Volatility-based Drafting Strategy for Fantasy Football

December 22, 2015 by Ricky

At SIG, one of our main goals is to maximize expected value (EV) on a daily basis. In fantasy football (and all fantasy sports for that matter), the goal is the same, draft players that give us the most expected points. But I propose that there is another variable to...

Gaming

Fighting Games & Trading: The Game within the Game

November 23, 2015 by Chris

At SIG, we most often compare trading to games of imperfect information, such as poker, where players possess different sets of information. This is in contrast to games of perfect information, such as chess, where players know everything about an opponent’s position and can respond sequentially to each of the...