The crack in a real game situation up to the river according to the new paradigm of Skill Poker Index

A final fundamental aspect to take into account in relation to the compliance of the discipline with the legal-dictionary diktats, is the question of the crack in a real game situation.

The crack in a game played till the river

For the outcome of the spot to be conditioned by the skills of the subject involved, it is necessary that the same subject has access to all the processes of signification that allow him to define and recognize the situation, understanding the real value of your combination compared to the opponent’s combination. Starting from the example described above, calling, or even raising, an opposing bet and, at the time of the show down, not being the one who holds the best hand, is the eloquent sign of the presence of at least one error. It is due to the misuse of quantitative and/or qualitative analysis processes used during all phases of the spot.

The crack in a game played till the river according to the new paradigm  

For this reason, according to the new paradigm of live tournaments proposed by the present elaborated, luck is no longer such a determining component for the results of the spot, precisely because, thanks to the new tools available, each athlete will potentially be able to define the situation in its complexity. It must be recognized, in fact, that in this dynamic the player initially disadvantaged, and who improves the value of his pocket cards on the river, has also been able to find all that information necessary to make him understand the willingness of his opponent to pour more chips into the pot. 

The sporting legitimacy of the crack in poker played up to the river

The spot under analysis, from the point of view of the new paradigm, is legitimate and does not affect the sporting requirements related to the criteria required by the European Charter of Sport regarding <

>. The definition has to be intended having always in mind the intrinsic and distinctive character of Texas Hold’em poker tournaments as an elimination sports competition that places every player involved in finding any solution that leads him to conquer the opponents stack. Each opponent, in turn, will have to take care of defending from the opposing strategies, investigating optimal strategies that subvert the competition in their favor.

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Pietro Semeraro

Transl. by Margherita Basile