Odysseus101 said:
Poker is neither a "game of chance" nor is it a "sport". It's a game of skill, that incorporates chance.
Why do we have this exact thread so regularly?
+1
Poker is certainly a game of skill. This is why good players win and bad players flounder around. Notice, I did not say bad players lose, because we all know that is not true. If the bad players always lose there would be one to play against.
"....The pot went not to the luckiest among them but to the most deft — the player who could guess his opponents’ intentions and disguise his own, make calculated decisions on when to hold and fold, and quickly decide how much to wager. That, anyhow, is how one federal judge saw it from his chambers in the Federal District Court in Brooklyn.
In a ruling that goes to the heart of what it means to play poker, Judge Jack B. Weinstein tossed out the conviction and vacated the indictment of the man who ran that gambling business. The judge’s reason: poker is more a game of skill than a game of chance, so game operators should not be prosecuted under the federal law the prohibits running an illegal gambling business.
“The most skillful professionals earn the same celestial salaries as professional ballplayers,” he wrote in the exhaustive 120-page ruling that detailed the history of poker in the United States...."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/n...me-of-skill-than-of-chance-a-judge-rules.html
...."After a seven-year trial, Amsterdam's court dismissed charges against three men accused of violating the national gambling law with a verdict that finds poker to be "first and foremost a game of skill, not of chance"."
https://www.pokernews.com/news/2014/01/amsterdam-court-rules-poker-a-skill-game-17340.htm
