The Game, Chance and Skill: Where Does Texas Hold’em Poker Stand?
What is a game? What is a sport? And where does Texas Hold’em poker stand in this continuum? These are apparently simple questions. But the answer determines everything: legality, regulation, sports recognition. And, ultimately, the legitimacy of the Skill Poker Index. The Game: An Ancient and Complex Category The word game derives from the Latin […]
Skill Poker Index: What They Are and How They Work
In the first article of this series we asked the fundamental question: is Texas Hold’em poker a sport or gambling? We saw how variance dominates live tournaments and why mathematical probability alone is not enough. The Skill Poker Index (SPI) were created to answer this problem. What Are the Skill Poker Index The Skill Poker […]