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

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I think a judge or jury actually hearing ALL of the considerations Phil Ivey makes before deciding to fold, bet, call or raise, would go a long way in convincing them that poker is mostly a skill game.

Skallagrim

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Taking that one step farther, if there was a demonstration of a person who had never played before playing 20 hands and describing what considerations they are making before each decision, then an average player, then a winning player, then a pro. It would be very very clear there was a great deal of skill involved in the decision making. Imagine a new player, who would basically be saying he's not thinking of much.. As opposed to a pro going through the full spectrum of a decision.

Then the correlation between skill and winning needs to be shown, which would be fairly simple with perhaps some hand databases from winning and losing players who have played 100K hands.