Dave is a quant at Paradigm. He asked:
The thread is full of recs. I mentioned David Sklansky whose books were assigned reading at SIG 20 years ago. Gambling literature is going to be a great place to search since it will likely balance academic and applied considerations.
To that end I also recommended the OG website —> wizardofodds.com
For decades, they’ve been publishing the combinatorics on casino games and so much more. They even had a list of all the specific video poker machines that had positive edge (yes, there were some. At SIG there was a group that actually exploited this as a fun side extracurricular).
The host of the exceptional gambling podcast Risk of Ruin @halfkelly immediately recommended:
Harry Crane’s First Course In Probability
Others recommended video courses such as:
Statistics 110: Probability by Harvard University
Course in Bayesian Statistics via Virginal Commonwealth University
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