Early Leaving Players

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How to solve the issue of Early-Leaving Players in gambling has been studied already in the 17th century. This problem, called Problem of points or Division of the stakes<ref name="p_o_p"/>, was studied by the mathematicians Fermat and Pascal in a mail conversation in the 1650s<ref name="sanford"/> that besides resulting in the concept of expectation value lay the foundation for both the fields of probability and statistics.

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Using the pattern

Player Balance Drop-In/Drop-Out Gambling Agents Proxy Players Unwinnable Games

Early Elimination

Consequences

As mentioned above, encouraging or supporting Early-Leaving Players is likely to cause the presence of Early Elimination and disrupt Player Balance, especially if the leaving player has the possibility of being a Kingmaker and chooses to use this power.

Relations

Can Instantiate

Early Elimination, Kingmaker

Potentially Conflicting With

Player Balance

History

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References

<references> <ref name="p_o_p">Wikipedia entry for the problem of points.</ref> <ref name="sanford">Sanford, V. (translator). Fermat and Pascal on Probability. In Smith, D.E., 1929. A Source Book in Mathematics, pp. 546-565. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.</ref> </references>

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