Brian Alspach Poker Profile

Brian Alspach is probably more familiar to people as a math whiz than as a poker player. He is actually both and as an accomplished mathematical genius, you could say playing and understanding the complexities of the game is a serious fascination. Alspach holds a B.A. from the University of Washington and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Math. Currently he uses that knowledge and his playing experience to figure out poker and then write articles to pass that knowledge on to poker players of all levels.

Alspach's personal website includes many of the poker computations he has figured out over the years. They are used to determine the probability of a specific poker hand and for many people the computations that are easy to understand by Alspach are nothing more than gibberish. Luckily for us, he does provide detailed explanations and a reference guide that basically tells you the probability of hitting the hand you are hoping for.

Alspach has taken what many poker players find frustrating and turned it into a valuable tool that has given many professionals an edge that they may not have had available to them before. Obviously these formulas have helped him as he doe have five cash wins with one first place win credited to his name for a total live tournament total of $10,472.00.