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Edward Hutchison
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Edward "E.R." Hutchison is an author and a psychotherapist in private practice in Madison, Mississippi, USA. He is more widely known for the point system he invented which evaluates starting poker hands. Biography After graduating from Jamesville-Dewitt High School, in New York, Hutchison studied in Syracuse University. He is married to Jean King and they have three children, Edward Jr, Mark, and Laura (now Mrs. J.L. Ainsworth II). In 1983, they moved from Fayetteville, NY, to their current residence in Jackson, Mississippi. Hutchison had also been elected twice in the Onondaga County Legislature, NY. Career Hutchison is a psychotherapist, an amateur magician, hypnotist and mentalist, an amateur genealogist, a poker player and author, and a college teacher. He has written books on mentalism, on Attala County families' genealogy, on poker and other subjects. Hand Rating System In 1997, Hutchison wrote an article in Canadian Poker Monthly, the magazine published between 1997 and 1998 by Dave Scharf, titled "Hutchison Point Count System for Poker". The article articulated a method which quantifies starting hands in Omaha Hi-Lo Poker, Eight or Better (Omaha HL8). The system's concepts were subsequently applied in other poker variants, such as Texas Hold'em, Omaha High, Hold 'em High-Low, and others. The system's stated objective is to "identify those hands that have at least a 50% above chance expectation of winning", with the assumption that the game is ten-handed and there's mix of good and bad players. The system's primary determinants of good Omaha starting hands relates to "the rank of the cards and whether or not they were paired, suited, or connected". According to the system's inventor, "a type of regression analysis was conducted to try and determine the relative weighting of each of these factors". Once the calculations are made, the resultant point total is divided by 2 and the resulting number, accoridng to Hutchison, "is an approximation of the actual win percentage for a particular hand--when played to the finish against nine opponents. The correlation between point totals and win percentages, while not representing a one-to-one correspondence is, nevertheless, quite high." Opponents of the system claim that it is "badly flawed" and the values assigned to some hands are "quite perplexing".
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