Is a legal trial a search for truth, like the activities of science or philosophy, or is it a combined game of skill and luck, like poker? Although we have modeled the process of litigation in our previous work as a Prisoner’s Dilemma, as a War of Attrition, as a Game of Chicken, and even as a simple coin toss, no one to our knowledge has formally modeled litigation as a game of poker. Our working paper “The Poker-Litigation Game” is the first to do so. Specifically, we present a simple poker/litigation game and find the optimal strategy for playing this game. Enjoy.

