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Message: [QUOTE="PoKeRFoRNiA, post: 1285433, member: 51710"] If you really think monopoly is just rolling the dice, then you don't know shit about Monopoly and you just sound just as ignorant as Congress and rest of non-poker players who say poker is luck, gambling game and is just matter of getting better hands. Just like poker, Monopoly requires skills. Its skills are managing properties, buying certain properties in given environment, learning how to fool your opponent by raising the bid on auctions so your opponent pays more than he should, knowing what to trade, when to mortage properties, etc, just like poker how you need to know when to be aggressive, when to fold, when to bluff, when to trust your instincts and call, etc. In Monopoly, if you're unlucky, you'll keep rolling a dice where you keep landing on your opponent's spaces or keep drawing horrible chance/community chest cards even when you have majority of properties owned. In poker, if you're unlucky, you either get sucked out, become card dead, or keep running into cooler deck where you keep having inferior hand compared to your opponent. Just like how poker has WSOP, monopoly ALSO has competitions called Monopoly World Championships. Only difference is, poker is more popular than Monopoly and has more stakes and money involved than Monopoly. But as game of skills, they're both game of skills and aren't any different from each other. Just like poker, skilled player will beat unskilled player more often in long-run in Monopoly. Poker is a game of skills but not a sport. Just because something requires skills doesn't mean it's a sport. And yes, every sports have very little luck involved, but not as much as poker where you can witness every bad beats and suckouts, which occurs every 2 seconds or less in the world. In definition of sports, they mention that it requires very little chance or no chance involved. Poker still involves lot of chance. Otherwise, there wouldn't be such thing called suckouts, bad beats. [/QUOTE]

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