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Message: [QUOTE="rwilson, post: 996522, member: 32897"] Yeah, it's hard to argue that poker [B][I]isn't [/I][/B]gambling in the short term.. but does it come to a point where you have to agree that it's not gambling anymore. Like with the casino scenario I gave before. Casinos gamble every single day as a business. They make more bets when the odds are in their favour (cause the odds are just about always in their favour!) and they win in the long run. In the short run they win and lose, but no one considers casinos to be gamblers.. they're businesses that make money. I think poker will always be viewed as gambling from a legal sense and it's nearly impossible to prove otherwise. But there's an ever growing number of players out there who wouldn't consider it to be gambling either; they look at it as a business or an investment. I think it's fine for people to call poker gambling.. but i don't think it should be put in the same basket as other more 'pure' gambling activities like the lottery, roulette (and most other table games for that matter), etc. Where you place your money down, have virtually no control over the outcomes, and close to 0% of punters can profit in the long run.. It's either impossible to beat the system or there's only a very minute percentage of punters who actually can beat the system consistently enough to make money long term. With poker you're not playing against a fixed system/house where the odds or prices are stacked against you at all times.. you can choose what cards you play and what cards you don't, and more importantly you can lay your own odds, which I think separates it from most other gambling activities. It's really in a class of it's own [/QUOTE]

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