Usually when the USC and UCLA talk about meeting in some sort of competitive endeavor, usually it involves 22 heavily armored students chasing a ball from one end of a 100 yard field to the other and doing the sorts of things to each other that would qualify as textbook assault if done off the field. In this particular case we are not talking about a football game, but rather the two schools continuing their rivalry over a poker table.
The Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS) will continue its schedule of inter-school matches this weekend with a team poker competition between USC and UCLA. This is part of a larger initiative that leads up to a national inter-school poker tournament in March of 2008.
USC and UCLA will shuffle and play for the pride of their respective schools on Friday, November 30th at 1:00pm. UCLA will have home field advantage as the poker will be played at that Los Angeles campus. Teams will consist of five students for each side playing one on one, best of three matches where each player will start with 2000 chips.
Annie Duke, who recently appeared before a congressional hearing to discuss the ramifications of online poker in the US, is set to give a speech on the Psychology of Poker and Gender Roles in Poker. The speech will be delivered prior to a match between two rival schools.
This game will be part of a rivalry weekend that includes the yearly football game between the two bitter rivals.
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