Don’t call it just “live event”, it’s a Case Study

Using the case study methodology allows to answer in a more than satisfactory way to the questions on “how” specific phenomena are found in a given context. This is therefore compatible with the question that originates from the research work: how and if introduce new rules in Texas ’Hold’em poker.

 Method

Case study method identifies the subject of the study. That case has, in fact, been considered significant in order to confirm the theory proposed and analyzed in this work.

The aim is not to generalize, but to understand in depth the case in its distinctive peculiarities and in its own social and economic context. The aim remains to obtain recognition as a sport based on skill, moving it away from the gambling category , in which it’s currently still placed.

Ethnography research

Since the author is also an event planner, the data collection has been made through the ethnographic method of participant observation. This allowed him to get a full vision of the strategies that could be adopted, and of the relations between the internal and external actors to coordinate. Participant observation, in fact, allows to examine activities and approaches in certain areas in depth. 

Qualitative analysis

It basically allows to understand how, where and why these activities and approaches happen, since it’s possible to observe and verify all the elements in person. Some of these elements are of a material nature, such as spaces and documents, others more subjective, such as the people with whom one has to relate and interact habitually. This also allows to conduct interviews, both formal and informal, by integrating objective analyses with insights that can go far beyond mere verbal language and simple analysis of documents. All this clearly gives greater depth and value to the research.

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Jack Bonora