WSJ: Harvard Ponders Just What It Takes to Excel at Poker

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Agreed Engineer, but just so the debate does not get further muddied up, your statement "The IRS recognizes blackjack as a game of skill for a professional gambler" is correct because the IRS only demands a game have SOME skill to be so classified for tax puposes. For determining whether a game is gambling as legally defined, the test is MOSTLY skill with respect too the outcome of the game, or, more correctly, outcomes are determined less than 50% of the time by chance.