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teaman2000

Well, it's less about your 'free will' and more about one's inability to generate a random number.

I'm not going to take the time to test it, but if you flipped a coin before each key press, this algorithm would eventually get to 50% accuracy. But in the short term it would probably be <50%, because it assumes it won't actually get random input.

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Actually, if a player is flipping a coin, it is literally impossible to design an algorithm that has expectation other than 50%. Even in the short term, it cannot have an expectation that's <50%.

Sklansky tells in the Theory of Poker that you need to be unpredictable when deciding whether to call a possible bluff, and "tune" it to the cards that are known.

So you may need to make a yes-no decision where you decide on yes about 65% of the time, when you consider lots of those decisions.

His solution? Glance at your watch. Divide the current minute into proportionate parts. See in which part the seconds hand is standing.

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