Dave Thornton is one of the principals at SkillInGames and OneBillionHands, a recently-launched site with access to, well, roughly one billion hands’ worth of anonymized hole card data from real money online poker games. We talk about where these hands came from (Dave asked us to clarify that, contrary to what he may have inadvertently implied during the interview, most of the hands did not come from the partner at the data consultancy where he used to work) and the many interesting questions that can be studied with them. One early application is a more complete method of quantifying luck than has ... Read more...