Silver Seeking Gold

Among the more than 2500 competitors today is political statistician and blogger Nate Silver, most famous for his website FiveThirtyEight.com. Silver’s mathematical approach to politics helped him to correctly predict the winner of all 51 states in last fall’s Presidential election, as well as 31 out of 33 senate races.

Silver added a few chips to his stack in a recent hand. A late position player raised to 1,700, and the button flat called. Silver then pushed all in from the big blind for about 25,000. Both other players folded, and Silver added the chips to his stack. He now sits with 30,000.

We’ll keep an eye on Silver to see how well his background in statistics and analysis serves him in this tournament.