TOURNAMENT BASED ON POKER-LIKE GAMES BASED ON LIVE SPORTING EVENTS

摘要

A tournament played over a network consisting of rounds (hands) of a poker-like gamebased on the action in one or more live sporting events. The number of handsplayed,and the timing of those hands, are the same for every player in thetournament, and areindependent of the number of players in the tournament. The number of playersin thetournament can be arbitrarily large or small. The prize structure can also beindependent of the number of players, and announced in advance. The tournamentispreferably based on a collection of closely associated betting events, likethe drives in asingle football game; or a collection of closely associated sporting events.The poker-like games played in each round of the tournament utilize chips where thewinners ofthe tournament are the players with the largest chip counts at the end of thetournament.