Is Poker Gambling?

sakenby · Apr 2, 2017

If your friend considers poker a gambling game,how he will treat the game on play chips?In this case,in his opinion,the game of chess can also be attributed to gambling if the game is on the money..

Thania Vento · Apr 2, 2017

no poker is a very good sport and also you can have fun when you are playing it

RED137 · Apr 2, 2017

To me, your not betting or "Gambling" on what cards will fall, you are using skill of the game to out play your opponents. To me that's not gambling it's psychology. But then again I could be wrong.

Bagdalac4ever · Apr 3, 2017

For me, the poker is business. I managed to earn some money playing poker and I don't think that poker is gambling. For gambling, you need to invest money, and I don't invest anything. I play freerolls and with my won amounts I play other tourneys. I am in plus.

Edvardas · Apr 3, 2017

I think poker is skill requiring gambling game. Its no matter how skillful you are, anyway you will need luck.

RED137 · Apr 3, 2017

Edvardas said:
I think poker is skill requiring gambling game. Its no matter how skillful you are, anyway you will need luck.

Yes, this is true. But in the long run skill will out do luck. If you sit at a table of Vet. Yes you can get lucky and win against them, but sit there long enough and you chips will be gone. Luck can only take you so far in poker. Million+ netting pros didn't get there just off luck. Poker isn't a coin flip game, you don't win some and lose some and break even, you need to know what you're doing at these tables/sites. Please don't take this as me harping on you, this is just my views on it.

Entrik · Apr 3, 2017

Most of the luck to the pass depends on luck, but! It is necessary to think naturally of the mind ...

PokerNuts01 · Apr 3, 2017

Slav4obaby said:
flips are gambling...

Are overtime in basketball gambling? Both teams have a 50 percent chance..

Edvardas · Apr 3, 2017

Kill3joy said:
Yes, this is true. But in the long run skill will out do luck. If you sit at a table of Vet. Yes you can get lucky and win against them, but sit there long enough and you chips will be gone. Luck can only take you so far in poker. Million+ netting pros didn't get there just off luck. Poker isn't a coin flip game, you don't win some and lose some and break even, you need to know what you're doing at these tables/sites. Please don't take this as me harping on you, this is just my views on it.

Yes, but I think poker is still not get rid of gambling game title... Its not a pure gambling like roulette, but in some ways it is a bit of gamble.

walluyo · Apr 3, 2017

Every consistently winning poker player (and probably many of the ones who aren't winning) knows that poker involves something fundamentally different from fixed-odds casino games. I am personally mindful never to refer to my poker playing as "gambling", and I agree with you that the association has a part in harming poker's image. However, I think the big picture is a little more complicated than that...

McDrix · Apr 3, 2017

There is a definitive element of chance involved therefore it's Grambling. Skill takes an important part of the game but it's not always a factor in each hand. Otherwise it will be always the most skilled players sitting at the final tables. As someone already said, over time skill will give better results than luck.

mstefanos666 · Apr 3, 2017

Poker is gambling because luck is a part of poker. No matter how "good" you play you can always have a bad beat and lose it all.. Especially in tournaments (which I play more) that you must win many hands to go far luck is a very big factor! How many times i've been knoked out with AA by some blufer who played all-in with J-9...

Fratchen · Apr 6, 2017

Not only luck is impotant.

Fedor Holz: 40% skill --- 60% luck
Good player: 30% skill --- 70% luck
Bad player: 10% skill --- 90% luck
All-In player: 0% skill --- 100% luck

PokerNuts01 · Apr 6, 2017

Fratchen said:
Not only luck is impotant.
Good player: 30% skill --- 70% luck

This is funny :icon_puke

ubo · Apr 7, 2017

of course it is... I Think this is by far the

orchidra · Apr 7, 2017

My tuppence worth.

Investing in shares is not gambling. Put simply, buying a share or shares in a company means you own a share of that company. The company’s share price may fluctuate, depending on its current financial performance or what investors think may happen in the future but at the end of the day, you still own a share of the company. Successful investors buy shares in excellent companies that are undervalued.

Poker is definitely gambling. A loser gives money (or something else) to a winner, via a game of chance. That’s it.

Shrek24 · Apr 19, 2017

I had this argument with my wife and also a few other friends/people. Short answer is no. Poker is not gambling. I say this because you are 100% in control of the amount you win or lose. It's not like roulette or craps. Those 2 games are luck related and the amount of control u have is only based on the money you bet.

cheeeer · Apr 20, 2017

For me it's not. For some other players it is.
stock markets is not gambling. It's more like well-ruled lottery or well-ruled chaos. The book "F.I.A.S.C.O.: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader" only confirms it. Sometimes it's pure cheating. The book “Liar’s Poker” is about similar stuff.
Luck varies from 10 to 90% from tourney to tourney.

cheeeer · Apr 20, 2017

Shrek24 said:
you are 100% in control of the amount you win or lose.

Really? How?

Shrek24 said:
It's not like roulette or craps.

I think name says for itself.

Marmot66 · Apr 20, 2017

no its not gambling , its more like 60% knowledge and 40% luck .:deal:

grinya774 · Apr 20, 2017

For me poker is not gambling. For me it's a hobby, entertainment, sport.

Sevendeuceoff72 · Apr 20, 2017

If it weren't gambling, wouldn't the same players be at the final table of the world series year after year? It's definitely gambling. Get your cards in with the best chance to win and still lose. Gambling

poketcardz · Apr 20, 2017

its a other way of life its no diff from working at wall mart its just a diff life style

hehasaces11 · Apr 20, 2017

I would say that poker HAS elements of gambling, but I mean hey I see plenty of fish 1-2 players who sit at tables and wait and only play made hands, that's not gambling. If I'm on a straight draw off the flop and it's a multiway pot with a good size bet and I call, I'm taking a gamble in that one instance. However if I flop quads and people are betting crazy at me, I'm not gambling, I'm just making bread.

droozy · Apr 20, 2017

poker is definitely gambling and involves luck and skill. The percentage of skill vs. luck really depends of format you play - in turbos, there is a lot of luck, but in deep cach game, there is little of luck, but definitely, all formats of poker involve luck.

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