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Identifying Online Professional Poker Players: A Revealed And Stated Analysis Approach, Kahlil Philander, Brett Ll Abarbanel

Graduate Student Research Conference in Hospitality and Tourism

This two-part paper is intended to explore the task of differentiating a professional gambler from a leisure gambler, specifically, among online poker players. The first part of the study consists of a statistical analysis to identify the requisite number of hands of online poker required to identify winning players, that is, players who should expect to show a profit during a given year. The second part of the study involves administering a survey that assesses players’ perceptions of whether they consider their own play to be that of a winning player.

Once both parts have concluded, we will investigate whether …