[Ghazban]

You may be right; I don't play bridge so I can't comment intelligently about the similarities of the situation. I just think that the dynamic of a table after a series of poker hands could be so different depending on who was playing those hands that each succeeding hand is less comparable to the exact same cards being dealt at another table.

You also run into the problem (if its a tournament) of people being knocked out on one table but not on the other. Do you deal hands to the empty seats to preserve the deck ordering? Also, if its down to 3 on one table and 8 at the other, there's really nothing useful to compare between the two situations any more.

Anyway, I do think certain standardized comparisons (if the stack sizes were reset after each hand) of individual hands could be quite interesting but the overall flow of many sequential hands would be so different on two tables that it'd be hard to run as an event/show/tournament/whatever. Essentially, this would just be doing what we do on these boards all the time-- giving a description of our cards and table conditions and seeing what sorts of different lines people would take.