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2024考研英语同源外刊5月:读什么书才能理解扑克?

Poker sits between two poles of perfect chance (as with roulette, say) and perfect strategy (as in chess). In most variations, players can see some of their opponents’ cards—whether shared ones, as in hold’em, or those dealt face up, as in stud—while some are known only to each player. Even in draw, in which each player is dealt her own hand unseen to the rest of the table, and can exchange cards to improve, play communicates information: exchange no cards, and you’re telling your opponents you have an exceptionally strong hand; take three or four, and you communicate weakness.

扑克处于机会(如轮盘赌)和策略(如国际象棋)的两极之间。在大多数变化中，玩家可以看到对手的一些牌——无论是在德州扑克中共享的牌，还是在梭哈中正面朝上的牌——而有些玩法只有每个玩家知道。即使在听牌时，每个玩家都拿到了自己的牌，而牌桌上的其他玩家看不到，并且可以交换牌来加强牌力，玩牌也会传达信息：如果不交换牌，你告诉对手你有一手非常强的牌，如果拿到三张或四张，你就会传达牌力很弱的信息。

In poker, as in life, the decision-making calculus changes with each new bit of information. The goal—building the best possible five-card hand—is simple; the path to get there is tortuous, variable and shifting. Therein lies the game’s glory, its appeal for authors and peril for readers. Surveying the poker bookshelf reveals an endless array of books that promise to turn the reader into a “feared shark”, or develop an “unbeatable strategy”. In fact the only thing that will make any player good is playing and losing a lot. But that does not mean the entire poker canon is meritless. Here are six of the best—meaning the most instructive and enjoyable books on the best game ever invented.

在扑克游戏中，就像在生活中一样，决策演算随着每一条新信息而变化。目标——打造较好的五张牌——很简单，但实现目标的道路是曲折、多变和不断变化的。这就是游戏的荣耀，它对作者很有吸引力，对读者却很危险。纵览扑克书架，你会发现有无数的书籍承诺将读者变成“可怕的鲨鱼”，或者开发出一种“不可战胜的策略”。事实上，能让任何玩家变好的办法就是比赛和输掉很多比赛。但这并不意味着整个扑克经典毫无价值。这里有六本较好的书——也就是关于这项有史以来较好的游戏的较有教育意义和较有趣的书。

The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You to Think Like One. By David Sklansky. Two Plus Two Publishing; 316 pages; $29.95 and £29.95. Given that poker games are won in practice rather than theory, and that these days players can choose from an array of apps, books and articles laying out the “GTO strategy” (game-theory optimal, resulting in the fewest possible exploitable mistakes) for every hand and situation, of what value, really, is a 36-year-old book on poker theory?

扑克理论：职业扑克玩家教你像扑克玩家一样思考。大卫·斯科兰斯基著。两加两出版316页29.95美元和29.95英镑。考虑到扑克游戏是在实践中而不是在理论中获胜的，而且如今玩家可以从一系列应用程序、书籍和文章中选择每一手牌和每一种情况的“GTO策略”(博弈论，导致较少可能的可利用错误)，那么一本有36年历史的扑克理论书籍到底有什么价值?

 

单词

poker/ˈpoʊkər/ n. 拨火棍;纸牌戏;扑克;

pole/poʊl/ n. 杆，柱;地极;截然相反的两极之一;

roulette/ruːˈlet/ n. 轮盘赌;

variation/ˌveriˈeɪʃ(ə)n/ n. 变化，变动;

opponent/əˈpoʊnənt/ n. 对手，竞争者;

hold’em 纸牌押注;德州扑克;

stud/stʌd/ n. 明扑克;梭哈;

draw/drɔː/ n. 抽牌;听牌;

exceptionally/ɪkˈsepʃənəli/ adv. 极其，非常;只有在特殊情况下，例外地;

calculus/ˈkælkjələs/ n.(数，逻)演算(法)，计算(法);

tortuous/ˈtɔːrtʃuəs/ adj. 拐弯抹角的;冗长费解的;弯弯曲曲的，曲折的;

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