Patent ID: 8734219

Claim:
A method comprising: determining, with a computer processor, a first expected stack value for a designated player immediately prior to a first voluntary player action event characterizing a first action taken by the designated player in a poker hand and a second expected stack value for the designated player immediately prior to a second voluntary player action event characterizing a second action taken by the designated player in the poker hand, wherein the first action precedes the second action, wherein each expected stack value represents a respective combination of a respective first amount of money or chips that the designated player possesses and has not yet committed to the poker hand with a respective second amount of money or chips that the designated player will receive in expectation from one or more pots associated with the poker hand, wherein the amount of money or chips that the designated player will receive in expectation from a pot is calculated by summing the product of the probability that the designated player will win the pot and the value of the pot if won with a sum of the products of the probability that the designated player will share the pot and the value of the pot if shared, for all unique combinations of opponents with whom the player may share the pot; determining, with the computer processor, a designated relative skill score for the designated player by calculating a difference between the second expected stack value and the first expected stack value; and storing the designated relative skill score on a storage medium.