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Old 09-17-2007, 08:44 AM
donkeyradish donkeyradish is offline
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Default Re: help on proving poker is not about luck

In a game of poker you have to make one or sometimes as many as seven decisions, each of which gives you choices (bet, raise, call or fold). In some games the bet amounts varies as well.

So lets take the assertion "Poker is all about luck" and put it to the test.

This means, that you can make ALL of these decisions randomly and be guaranteed to have exactly the same win rate as someone who actually thinks about what they are doing. You could raise with every hand to the river. Or fold every hand before the flop. All with equal success.

This is true of picking numbers for the lottery, and its true about roulette too (with 1 tiny exception).

You dont need a graph to prove its not true about poker.
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