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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^[1], was studied by the mathematicians Fermat and Pascal in a mail conversation in the 1650s^[2] that besides resulting in the concept of expectation value lay the foundation for both the fields of probability and statistics.

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Early Elimination

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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.

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References

1. ↑ Wikipedia entry for the problem of points.
2. ↑ 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.

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