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[QUOTE="bricktoperson, post: 5959250, member: 1059426"]
[b]Academical response[/b]

You should not focuse on the randomness of the game, but on the lack of.
Ill explain

Robert caillois places every game in one of the following categories (simplified)

Agon: competitive games where the player needs a set of pre aquired skills, played in a plain field where the most prepared will come out victorious

Alea: the oposite of agon, those are games that uses randomness as its main characteristics, not needing any preparation what so ever, those are called games of chance.

Theres a few more types of games described by callois, but we will focuse on these two.

And by doing so we can place poker perfectly as a Agon, much more than alea.
 - poker is a competitive game
 - poker players study the game and those studies reflect directly on a players success.
 - all the players play with the same deck.
 - the most prepared will always win in the long run. We can observe that just looking at successfull players results.
 Hence agon

Lets take a game of dice for example
 - a player have the exact same odds for any result, marked by the dice number
 - they dont need any training what so ever, training wont affect the outcome
 - there is no such thing as a regular winner of dice. 
 Hence alea.

Ill finish with a quote

[I]"The game (...) oposes to work, as the wasted time oposes to time well spent [/I]” (CAILLOIS, 1990, p.9).
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