Poker is Luck

[Go_Blue88]

I am so tired of your moronic posts. You're unbelievable.

[Orlando Salazar]

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I am so tired of your moronic posts. You're unbelievable.

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Wow, 3 pages of responses when i say we shouldn't argue poker playing as a skill but as a constitutional right. Hmmmm....maybe you could learn a thing about getting a discussion going. Idiot.

[Skallagrim]

Rerpulse wrote:
"1) A table of completely unskilled players (for example, betting/raising/folding with equal probability at each decision point in Limit Holdem) would clearly not always end in a showdown, but this argument suggests that some portion of skill is present in the game despite the fact that none of the decisions made by the players involve any skill at all."

This is not nitty, but it is a misunderstanding of what is required. As has been said before, DONT CONFUSE ACTUAL PERSONAL SKILL WITH "ACTS OF SKILL."

To illustrate: when I play golf there is no skill involved (believe me), does that make golf a game of chance? No. The act of swinging a club is an "act of skill" whether I have any ability at it or not. Same is true of decision making in poker. They are acts of skill whether you make good decisions or bad ones. All your unskilled players are still doing acts of skill, they are just doing it with very little actual personal skill.

Your second point is actually better, because there are some forms of poker that may not fit the proof I have constructed. But the proof works very well for Holdem, Omaha, and 7-Stud. I can live with just those games if I have to.

Thanks for the input.

Skallagrim

[JayEmm]

the skill of it all is to put yourself in the best situation to be lucky

[repulse]

Makes sense. Thanks.

[Orlando Salazar]

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the skill of it all is to put yourself in the best situation to be lucky

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not that this is discussion relevant, but the skill of poker is putting yourself in the position to not need luck, but capitalizing on it when encountered.