The observation of the critical issues underlying the current state of non-regulation of the live poker discipline has brought out what I called “structural misunderstanding”. It’s a fundamental step to understanding the need for an evolved form of poker discipline, at a professional level. Of a model that knows how to respond to the needs of technical-strategic, cultural and socio-economic growth of the players of the poker discipline. Top target of the Skill Poker Index, capable of breaking down variance in poker.
Structural misunderstanding
I identified this misunderstanding at the dawn of the poker discipline in tournament mode. The primordial anomaly that forces discipline in the category of gambling is also affected by the influence of the cultural heritage of the promoters of time. I am referring to the late sixties of the last century, a period dominated by mass production, exponential growth and the accumulation of large profits. At that time, the ARPANET engineers had not yet realized that they had invented the mail, so the guide models were still quantitative analysis and a priori rationality of Weberian memory. My analysis of the time shows that poker was considered a casino game, and, as such, business strategies were subject to the paradigms of the time. These strategic business models have influenced the development of the live sector towards shortsighted and mono-disciplinary strategies.
Cash Game or Tournament
In this context, the tournament mode is born. This is the exact transposition of the original cash game mode, modulating the structure with the progressive increase of the blind levels in a given time. This mode of play has favored a considerable spread of the poker discipline, clearing it from the classic negative clichés in the public domain. The market offers tournaments of all levels and lengths, which have allowed many players and entrepreneurs great results in terms of popularity and income. The classic mode of Texas Hold’em poker tournaments is known as “sport poker”. With the analysis of the next article I will demonstrate how even the traditional tournament mode is a victim of the Padia component.
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Pietro Semeraro
Transl. by Margherita Basile
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