[Skallagrim]

Ahem, virtually nobody claims poker is a game of PURE chance, nor is that what the law requires. The test in most places is whether the game is MOSTLY chance or MOSTLY skill, whichever prevails decides whether its gambling or "skill gaming."

So while there are at least a few dozen ways to prove poker isnt only chance, including your observation that a chance game cant have consistent winners, what is needed is for ways to prove that chance is the lesser element as opposed to not the only element.

If you can come up with a way to do that better than what I have constructed, please post it, we need all the ideas we can get. Absent a change in the law, this may be the only way to save playing the game legally anywhere outside a casino.

Skallagrim