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- Title
One, Two, Sort the Shoe; Three, Four, Win Some More: The Rhyme and Reason of Phil Ivey's Advantage Play at the Borgata.
- Authors
Carr, Nanci K.
- Abstract
In the 1940's film, "My Little Chickadee," when a novice gambler asks if poker is a game of chance, W.C. Fields, a well-known comedic actor, playing Cuthbert J. Twillie, responded "Not the way I play it, no."1 That familiar quote represented crooked card games played by Fields' many characters in a variety of movies. But there is a difference between cheating and playing with an advantage. For example, one who has a large vocabulary has an advantage playing Scrabble®, but that advantage is not cheating. The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey and Phil Ivey, a famous poker player, debated in federal court whether having an advantage is illegal after Ivey won almost $10 million using an advantage that the Borgata, like a younger sibling who just lost a board game to an older sibling, cried was unfair. But what about the Borgata's advantage? All casinos have a house advantage, among others, so it seems only fair that players are entitled to use an advantage too.
- Subjects
ATLANTIC City (N.J.); CARD games; POKER; PLAYING cards; POKER players; BOARD games
- Publication
Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 1, p37
- ISSN
2153-1323
- Publication type
Article