Abstract: One or more embodiments provide a virtual environment that enables users to have their own personalized avatars (including the use of representations of users' own faces). In this virtual environment, users can play a virtual sports game where the drafting of the players for the particular virtual sport being played is conducted by a virtual game such as poker, blackjack and other games. A dealer in a virtual environment can deal out “cards” that show the names of the sports players, their teams and up-to-date statistics for each athlete in the particular virtual sport being played to the personalized avatars of players sitting around a virtual casino table.