OK so how would you go about showing poker is a game of skill?

[tame_deuces]

Explain the the majority of players who sit down are losing players who might as well hit the slot machines as play poker, and that they are probably relying completely on their 'luck' to win money.

Oh wait, that might not be too smart. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[cmyr]

I think this is a fairly easy question. Create two games of x hands of a limit game (HE, for simplicity), where each hand is played from the same seeded deck.

In game one, apply a random strategy, where at each point in the hand where hero is provided with a decision (fold/call/raise) his action is determined randomly. (or close enough... use seed numbers from your internal clock or roll a die)

In game two, the hands are played by a competent human player.


Even better, you could have Villain employ the random strategy, and Hero is a competent human player.


Then you just need to calculate your St/D and play enough hands to be 99+% confident that Hero is a winner.