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The precise rules of a Calcutta can vary from place to place; many tournament organizers employ software programs that apply odds and determine win-place-show amounts. Perhaps the simplest and most common Calcutta payout is 70 percent of the pool to the "owner" of the winning tournament team, 30 percent to the "owner" of the second-place ...
Independent Chip Model. In poker, the Independent Chip Model (ICM), also known as the Malmuth–Harville method, [1] is a mathematical model that approximates a player's overall equity in an incomplete tournament. David Harville first developed the model in a 1973 paper on horse racing; [2] in 1987, Mason Malmuth independently rediscovered it ...
Parimutuel betting. Parimutuel betting or pool betting is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and the "house-take" or "vigorish" are deducted, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all winning bets. In some countries it is known as the tote after the totalisator, which ...
Derby City Classic. The Derby City Classic is an annual pool convention and tournament held every January at the Caesars Southern Indiana casino in Elizabeth, Indiana, near Louisville, Kentucky. [1] It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of competition for pool players of all caliber. [2] It is often referred to as the DCC.
The tour attracted the top pool players in the world. It differed from the many nine-ball tournaments, as all IPT events were eight-ball matches. [2] The company was based in Hinsdale, Illinois. [3] Many pool enthusiasts were initially skeptical, but the first event was successful, and at the time was the biggest tournament in billiards history ...
Double-elimination tournament. A double-elimination tournament is a type of elimination tournament competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament 's championship upon having lost two games or matches. It stands in contrast to a single-elimination tournament, in which only one defeat results in elimination.
Chesapeake Conference Center, site of the U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship from 1997 to 2011. The U.S. Open Pool Championship, formerly the U.S. Open Nine-ball Championship, is an annual professional men's nine-ball pool tournament that began in its current form in 1976. The U.S. Open is one of the most sought-after titles in nine-ball and in pool ...
matchroompool.com. The WPA World Nine-ball Championship is an annual professional nine-ball pool tournament contested since 1990. The championship is sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) and principally sponsored and organised by Matchroom Sport, who provide the event's official website branded as World Pool Championship.