Sklansky says that NLHE MTTs with no antes have more skill. You?

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Saying that one game "has more skill" than another isn't a well-defined statement. There are at least two facets to this. One, the luck factor, and two, how much edge one player can have over another. Tic-Tac-Toe has no luck factor, but there's no edge either, unless you're playing against a 3 year old. Backgammon has a big luck factor, but the better player can have a very big edge. So which is the "game of skill" ?

I mean there's no doubt that chess or Go (no luck factor [1], big edge) are are more "skill games" than Chinese Poker (huge luck factor, no edge [1] again). But if you're talking about more subtle cases like no limit poker vs limit poker or NL with antes vs NL without, there's almost no point arguing about it. Different skills come into play in each case and usually when someone's arguing for one form or another, they will present the game that matches their own skill-set as being "more skillful". Skalansky's [2] argument here seems to match this pattern.

[1] I'm not interesting in nit-picking the difference between "none" and "little or none" in these cases.

[2] Whenver Brandi mangles the English language, the mangling should become standard on this forum. I think this would be very productful.