{"id":417,"date":"2010-05-24T03:41:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T03:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=417"},"modified":"2010-05-24T03:41:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T03:41:50","slug":"417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2010\/05\/24\/417\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Skiena: Betting on Jai Alai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casinoonline.co.uk\/images\/casino-experts-interviews\/steve.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"159\" \/>Holly Emblem is the editor of CasinoOnline.co.uk. They recently published an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casinoonline.co.uk\/casino-experts-interviews\/gambling-jai-alai-steven-skiena\">interview with Steven Skiena<\/a>, author of <em>Calculated Bets<\/em>.  Skiena, a Professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York, is also a fan of jai alai, a passion he picked up during a family vacation to Florida when he was a kid.\u00a0 As noted in the interview, &#8220;From early teenage invention Clyde, to the jai alai betting machine that  is Maven, Skiena book charts an arduous journey of applying mathematics  to gambling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read the book, but it certainly seems interesting.\u00a0 Skiena focuses on gambling as it relates to sports and says &#8220;if you don&#8217;t understand the mathematics, you shouldn&#8217;t gamble,&#8221; which makes a great deal of sense.\u00a0 His passion for jai alai certainly intrigues me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be looking for his book.<\/p>\n<p>Eskerrik asko, Holly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Emblem is the editor of CasinoOnline.co.uk. They recently published an interview with Steven Skiena, author of Calculated Bets. Skiena, a Professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York, is also a fan of jai alai, a passion he picked up during a family vacation to Florida when he was a kid.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,19,9],"tags":[401,402,129,403,404],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-people","category-sports","tag-casinoonline-co-uk","tag-gambling","tag-jai-alai","tag-maven","tag-steven-skiena"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2sYNu-417","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}