If you google “sports poker” you will find things like:
- Is poker a sport?
- Online poker sites
- Sportsbooks that also have poker
- Poker games at sports bars
Hardly anybody has ever heard of the game we call Sports Poker! Well, now you’ve heard of it, but maybe you still don’t know what it is.
Sports Poker is exactly what it sounds like - a combination of (live) sports and poker. It is a real poker game, or perhaps I should say it’s a “poker-like” game. It has bets, calls, folds, bluffs, etc., and those terms mean precisely the same thing in Sports Poker as they do in regular poker. However, live sports are an integral part of Sports Poker, so it’s obviously not normal poker! A “hand” in Sports Poker is not what you’re used to, and the value of a hand depends on what happens in the live sporting event you are watching as you play.
Oh, and Sports Poker is not just one game - just like traditional poker is not just one game. Sports Poker is a genre of games, with possible versions for any and every sport. Of course, we have not worked out the details for every sport! But we have prototypes for Football, Baseball, Daily Fantasy Sports contests, and Bracket games, with more on the way. Football Poker has been through beta testing at some Colorado sports bars (in association with Rocky Mountain Poker Venues) to fine tune the game to be optimally fun. Among many other things, this blog will keep you informed on how that process is going!
The next couple of blog posts will explain what Sports Poker is all about. (After that I will wander off and write about other topics too.) If you just want the rules for (say) Football Poker, you can read the Football Poker Primer. If you want a concise description of Sports Poker in general, you can read the White Paper. The blog posts will hopefully be informative and more fun to read!
If you are a poker player already, you will understand Sports Poker effortlessly. If you are not already a poker player, learning to play a Sports Poker game, like Football Poker, is about like learning to play a traditional poker game, like Texas Hold’em.
I hope everybody that learns about Sports Poker says to themselves “This sounds like a great game! When/where/how can I play?” But there’s another reaction that I’m also looking for: “Why didn’t I think of this game myself?!!” Sports Poker has always been “out there”, just waiting to be found. The basic rules really couldn’t be any other way. That will be another major theme in these blog posts.
I hope you are curious and read on!