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

[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.