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[QUOTE="Dorugremon, post: 3521775, member: 94033"]
See my OP. This is a false dichotomy: Poker (or Blackjack or Roulette or Craps or the races or sports) can be both: a game of skill and chance. What makes the difference is the skill required to find the overlays. A pure game of chance like the slots, the lottery, carnival games like Wheel of Fortune or Chuck-a-Luck have a -EV regardless of what you do. You can win any finite series of -EV bets, but not for long. You can lose a series of +EV bets, but eventually you make up for these losses and profit from the +EV situation. Neither negate the short term element of chance.

What do you expect from a pack of lawyers? They're clueless about a lot of things. Poker's one of them. Technology is another. Special interests use that fact to lead them by the nose to whatever conclusion suits these special interests.

All the "scientific studies" will always reach the same conclusion: Poker is chance + skill. If they want to ban games with a built-in bias against the player, then they should say so.

Better still would be getting their damn noses out of everybody's personal business.
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