USC and UCLA Face Off in a Poker Match

November 28, 2007

This Friday, at the UCLA campus, USC and UCLA will go head to head at 1 pm in a poker match. Before the match begins, Annie Duke will be on hand to speak on the Psychology of Poker and Gender Roles in Poker.

This will begin one hour prior to the poker match. The two California rival schools will also have their annual football game that weekend. The match was set to coincide with the game.

The match is part of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society that sets up inter-school matches and will host a national inter-school poker tournament in March of next year. Certain Universities across the United States are a part of the Society and have formed teams at their schools.

Team Poker is like Texas Hold’em with a twist. Five players from each team play an opposing team in separate one-on-one matches and the player is the winner if they get the best out of three matches. Players are ranked and play an opposing player of the same ranking.

Each player starts with 2000 chips and play until one player has all the chips. The winning Team has to win three points and points are gained by winning match sets. Each set won is worth one point.

Harvard was the winning school a few weeks ago when they were up against Yale. The Society will hold several poker matches at Universities and look forward to the National Collegiate Poker Tournament next year.

GPSTS Executive Director and third year Harvard Law School student Andrew Woods said, "There's tremendous enthusiasm on campus for GPSTS and for poker matches. We hope to capture the same spirit of the March Madness basketball tournament when we hold our national competition in the spring."