The Skill Poker Index and the logic of distribution of the pot
To better understand the Skill Poker Index and the concept of partial allocation of the pot in favor of the enhancement of skills, it is necessary to add a reflection, on a further intrinsic characteristic of the discipline, the analysis of the origin of the same and the logic of the actors involved. The “Suck” […]
Blind stealing in live poker tournaments
This article gives the chance to get a first vision of the new paradigm to be adopted in reference to live tournaments, as well as perspective founder of the Skill Poker Index. Substantial difference between cash games and tournaments in Texas Hold’em poker As I anticipated in the previous article, professional and amateur players apply […]
The journalistic career in the Poker Social Enterprise project
Fabio Abbruciati Interview A major project needs great interpreters, and our aim is get you to know them, because their role will be decisive. Today we’re gonna chat with Fabio Abbruciati and we want to find out how he got in touch with Poker Social Enterprise and, above all, what aspects convinced him to take […]
At the core of Skill Poker Index
Once we’ve clarified the legal-dictionary aspects of the definition of sport and the necessary requirements to be able to fall into the category, with respect to the critical issues of poker Texas Hold’em, with the next articles we will get into the elaboration of the Skill Poker Index. The change of paradigm The change of […]
The hard law of Sport
From the theme of skills in live poker, today, I propose a reflection on the characteristics of sports disciplines compared to Texas Hold’em poker. In any sport, the smallest error of an athlete can be fatal to the success of the performance; if the perfect execution of the sporting gesture automatically leads to the success […]
Skills in live poker – Part.2
Thanks to the continuous face-to-face duels, Texas Hold’em live poker can be considered as the perfect arena for the empirical phase of a wide range of theories concerning the study of communication. Strategically speaking, though it isn’t the purpose of this discussion, the studies of authors have proved useful, such as, for example, de Saussure, […]
Skills in live Texas Hold’em poker – Part.1
Compared to online poker, participation in a live poker event the scenario is very different. Although in its scientific purity, when dealing with live tournaments, the strategies suggested by the mono-disciplinary analysis of mathematics are not suitable. Probabilistic math is the only possible tool to break down variance in online poker. In live poker this […]
Skills in online Texas Hold’em poker
From my long observation on the field I was able to frame online poker skills in two different cognitive paths, but intrinsically interdependent: ability, quality and speed with which the subject succeeds, in statistical terms, in selecting the most relevant data and on the basis of the latter, calculating the equity of his perceived range […]
Texas Hold’em poker Skills
At this point in the elaboration of the Skill Poker Index, it was necessary an in-depth analysis of what is meant by skill in Texas Hold’em poker. From the literature analyzed, the dominant element that binds the discipline in the category of gambling, lies in the impossibility of using skills to govern the outcomes of […]
The critical issues underlying the current state of non-regulation in the live poker sector – Part.3
The influence of variance in so-called “sports poker” in the final outcome of a live tournament In the last article I stated that the traditional structure of Texas Hold’em poker tournaments is one of the causes that forces discipline in the category of “gambling”. In paragraph 1.4, page 21 of my Thesis, I propose the […]