Tournament Structure for Live Sporting Event Poker Games
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional poker tournaments are limited in accommodating a large number of players and lack flexibility in the number of hands played and their timing, which is not suitable for poker-like games based on live sporting events, where synchronization and player choice of hands are essential.
Innovation Solution
A network-based tournament structure where all players participate in the same number of rounds and at the same times, with the ability to choose their hands, and betting rounds synchronized with live sporting events, allowing for flexible participation and dynamic hand values based on event actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional poker tournament format is used, then players can play with flexible number of hands at different tables, but the tournament duration becomes unpredictable and cannot accommodate large number of players efficiently
Solution Approach 1:
The tournament is divided into discrete rounds, each corresponding to a specific live sporting event. Each round processes a fixed number of players through standardized betting events, allowing the tournament to scale to millions of players while maintaining predictable timing. The segmentation of players into tables that process identical hands simultaneously enables high throughput without sacrificing time predictability.
Solution Approach 2:
The tournament follows a periodic structure where rounds are conducted at regular intervals synchronized with live sporting events. Each round has a predetermined duration based on the associated sporting event, creating a rhythmic progression through the tournament. This periodic action ensures that tournament duration is predictable and can be planned around the schedule of live events.
2Adaptability or versatility
If hands are dealt randomly to players, then the game follows traditional poker rules, but players cannot strategically choose their hands based on live event outcomes
Solution Approach 1:
Players are presented with multiple possible hands before the live sporting event begins and must select their hands in advance. This preliminary selection allows players to strategically consider potential outcomes and choose hands that align with their betting strategy. The hands are then evaluated against the actual live event outcomes, adding a layer of strategic depth while maintaining clear operational rules.
3Adaptability or versatility
If all players play different numbers of hands at different times, then each table has independence, but synchronization with live sporting events becomes impossible
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple tables are merged into a synchronized structure where all tables play the same hands at the same time, coordinated by a central system. The tournament controller distributes identical hands to all tables simultaneously and collects results in a unified manner. This merging eliminates the complexity of desynchronized play while enabling precise synchronization with live sporting events, as the central system can coordinate all tables to follow the event timeline.
4Quantity of substance
If tournament duration is extended to accommodate more players, then player participation increases, but the tournament structure becomes incompatible with live event timing
Solution Approach 1:
The tournament is segmented into concurrent rounds that can process large numbers of players simultaneously. Each round is time-bound to a specific live sporting event, allowing the tournament to accommodate millions of players within the duration of the live event. The segmentation enables parallel processing of player hands across multiple tables, maintaining a direct relationship between tournament duration and live event timing regardless of player count.
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AI summary
A tournament played over a network consisting of rounds (hands) of a poker-like game based on the action in one or more live sporting events. The number of hands played, and the timing of those hands, are the same for every player in the tournament, and are independent of the number of players in the tournament. The number of players in the tournament can be arbitrarily large or small. The prize structure can also be independent of the number of players, and announced in advance. The tournament is preferably based on a collection of closely associated betting events, like the drives in a single football game; or a collection of closely associated sporting events. The poker-like games played in each round of the tournament utilize chips where the winners of the tournament are the players with the largest chip counts at the end of the tournament.