The definition of information allows us to understand the indeterminability of information in poker, consisting of the heterogeneity of the meanings that each player can attribute to them.
The communication dynamics in poker
The analytical mathematical model is not sufficient to explain the complex processes of communication in general, leaving the scientific responsibility of new knowledge to the different scientific disciplines that operate in the field of communication. These scientific disciplines find their perfect application to the “communication dynamics” that develop in all the spots in a live Texas Hold’em poker tournament. By communicative dynamics in poker we mean the performance, by the subjects involved, of all the self-empowerment processes treated above [Bruscaglioni, 1994].
David Sklansky’s Theory of Poker
The above theoretical framework allows to reformulate in a structural key an important theory already present in the literature elaborated so far solely in a strategic key, but which today allows to develop the new model of professional tournaments proposed in this paper, we refer to “The Fundamental Theorem of Poker” by David Sklansky[1987]:
” Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would have played it if you could see all your opponents’ cards, they gain; and every time you play your hand the same way you would have played it if you could see all their cards, they lose. Conversely, every time opponents play their hands differently from the way they would have if they could see all your cards, you gain; and every time they play their hands the same way they would have played if they could see all your cards, you lose”.
The information primacy in Sklansky’s Theory of Poker
Sklansky’s Theory[1987] becomes fairly relevant to the present paper because it provides two basic assumptions for the new model under construction. The first assigns informational primacy to the individual components of the deck of cards on which the entire spot is developed; the second highlights the need to combine knowledge of information with the decision-making processes consistent with strategies for success.
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Transl. by Margherita Basile
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