Welcome to the Sports Poker Blog
Burt Simon
Welcome to the Sports Poker Blog

Welcome to the Sports Poker blog! I am a recently retired math professor, reborn as a game inventor, game theorist,...

Sports Poker in a Nutshell
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Sports Poker in a Nutshell

There are lots of traditional poker games - Texas hold’em, seven-card stud, and draw poker, to name just a few....

Football (Drive) Poker
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Football (Drive) Poker

I will now describe the version of Sports Poker that we have the most experience with. It’s a version of...

Football (Next Score) Poker
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Football (Next Score) Poker

In the last post I described a version of Football Poker that divides the game into drives, i.e., one hand...

Soccer (Futbol) Poker
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Soccer (Futbol) Poker

Lots of sports naturally break into rounds. For example, baseball innings (or half innings), football drives, and tennis sets. Other...

Baseball (Inning) Poker
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Baseball (Inning) Poker

The simplest way to split a baseball game up into rounds is by half innings, and that’s what we have...