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Old 10-25-2007, 04:15 PM
Lottery Larry Lottery Larry is offline
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Default Re: Vote on whether poker is skill or chance

They were just filtering out your ballet stuffing.
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Old 10-25-2007, 04:28 PM
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Default Re: Vote on whether poker is skill or chance

This is a PERFECT quote!

"It certainly has elements of skill," said Keith Whyte, executive director of The National Council on Problem Gambling, "but the predominant element has to be chance. Otherwise, it wouldn't be gambling."

While I disagree with the "it wouldn't be gambling with skill involved" idea, the quote as is should work perfectly.

The proper response- "well, DUHHH, it's not gambling!"
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Old 10-25-2007, 05:12 PM
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Default Re: Vote on whether poker is skill or chance

Takin a shot in the dark here, but you must be saying poker isn't gambling [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

All we have to do is prove that skill is the predominant element (which it is).
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Old 10-25-2007, 06:27 PM
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Default Re: Vote on whether poker is skill or chance

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Well USA Today polling's math isn't very skilled- right now the 4 options are totaling 50% LOL



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Forget splitting the vote we should back; "mostly skill with a little chance."


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Where are you guys getting these numbers??? I show 2979 votes with "mostly skill" leading "mostly luck" 42% to 40%.
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Old 10-25-2007, 08:07 PM
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Default Re: Vote on whether poker is skill or chance

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Well USA Today polling's math isn't very skilled- right now the 4 options are totaling 50% LOL


Forget splitting the vote we should back; "mostly skill with a little chance."


D$D

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Where are you guys getting these numbers??? I show 2979 votes with "mostly skill" leading "mostly luck" 42% to 40%.

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sorry I did a litte spamming on the usual poker fourms to see if I could move the vote a little.

Thanks all!


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Old 10-26-2007, 04:26 PM
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Default Re: Vote on whether poker is skill or chance

We should do the vote again, except only allow winning players to vote!! Of course the losing players think they're losing because of chance, and not for their lack of skill....

It's like whining about "bad beats" but on a grand scale. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] No wonder half the votes are "mostly chance."
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Old 10-26-2007, 09:02 PM
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This poll is not complete. My answer to the question is, in the short term it is mostly skill with a little chance. In the long-term it is all skill.

The problem with the poll too is that most of the people voting have never played and dont really know what its like. They are just going by their biased opinion.

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agreed
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Old 10-26-2007, 09:02 PM
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Default Re: Vote on whether poker is skill or chance

i ended up voting mostly skill but little chance
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Old 10-26-2007, 09:04 PM
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This is a PERFECT quote!

"It certainly has elements of skill," said Keith Whyte, executive director of The National Council on Problem Gambling, "but the predominant element has to be chance. Otherwise, it wouldn't be gambling."

While I disagree with the "it wouldn't be gambling with skill involved" idea, the quote as is should work perfectly.

The proper response- "well, DUHHH, it's not gambling!"

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hahahahahahaha
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Old 10-26-2007, 09:54 PM
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Default Re: Vote on whether poker is skill or chance

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We should do the vote again, except only allow winning players to vote!! Of course the losing players think they're losing because of chance, and not for their lack of skill....

It's like whining about "bad beats" but on a grand scale. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] No wonder half the votes are "mostly chance."

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Don't educate the fish!

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