Re: chess or poker
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Megenoita, there is no way that a player can win at poker simply by "being random" or by "pushing around" when the situation does not call for it. Poker requires much more skill than that.
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I didn't say that a player can win in poker by "simply" being random. What I mean is that in poker, there are many strategies a poker player can employ that will win him pots and keep people on their toes, and they're pretty simple--they don't take a lot of intelligence to work. The reason that it works is because opponents have exploitable weaknesses that, although they are strong aside from this one or two obvious deficiencies, those are enough to make the opponents profitable to play against.
If you are comparing world class players against world class players, I think you can argue for poker being as intricate as chess. But at most levels, I don't think it is-it's too simple to win.
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