![]() Determined to know why his strategy was unsuccessful, he consulted with Pascal. De Méré tried a new mathematical approach to a gambling game but did not get the desired results. His friend, Chevalier de Méré, was an avid gambler with the goal to become wealthy from it. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) also contributed to probability theory. However, his work did not receive any immediate recognition since it was not published until after his death. ![]() His work from 1550, titled Liber de Ludo Aleae, discussed the concepts of probability and how they were directly related to gambling. Motivated by Paccioli's work, Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576) made further developments in probability theory. In 1494, Fra Luca Paccioli released his work Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni e proportionalita which was the first written text on probability. The development of probability theory in the late 1400s was attributed to gambling when playing a game with high stakes, players wanted to know what the chance of winning would be. Probability and gambling have been ideas since long before the invention of poker. ![]() In poker, the probability of each type of 5-card hand can be computed by calculating the proportion of hands of that type among all possible hands. ![]()
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