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Published: March 26, 2008 03:48 pm
LANE: Enjoy the perfect imperfections of brackets
By Paul Lane/lanep@gnnewspaper.com
Greater Niagara Newspapers
• In the second round, 12 seeds are 16-15 thanks to Western Kentucky’s win over 13 seed San Diego. Ten seeds are 18-18 in the second round after Davidson’s run.
• Two lower seeds are favorites in bettors’ eyes this weekend, with No. 7 West Virginia picked over No. 3 Xavier and No. 3 Louisville favored against No. 2 Tennessee.
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The Big East and Pac-10 are the conferences with the most representatives (three each) in the Sweet 16. The Big 12 and Big 10 each got two teams in, with the ACC, SEC, Southern, Conference USA, Sun Belt and Atlantic 10 getting one team each in.
Among the six power conferences, the Big 10’s tournament teams have the best winning percentage (.714 for four teams). Following the Big 10 are the Pac-10 (.667 for six teams) and Big East (.667 for eight teams); Big 12 (.636 for six teams), ACC (.571 for four teams) and SEC (.444 for seven teams). The Pac-10 and Big 10 each had half of their teams advance to the Sweet 16.
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A recently released study determined that poker is, in fact, a game of skill.
The study, conducted at Case Western Reserve University, saw two groups of poker novices given basic poker rules. They played against poker software, with one group being given advanced poker instruction on hand ranks, how to read players and other skill sets. The other group was left alone, with that group being outperformed by their more-informed peers on two trials totaling nearly 1,000 hands.
“The reason that poker appears to be a game of luck is that the reliability of any short session is low,” the authors wrote in their conclusion, which was reported on pokernews.com. “Luck disguises the fact that poker is a game of skill. However, as these studies show, skill is the determining factor in long-term outcome.”
Contact editor Paul Laneat 693-1000, ext. 116,or lanep@gnnewspaper.com.
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