Poker, Game of Luck or Skill?

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Is poker a game of skill

  • Yes

    Votes: 42 60.0%

  • No

    Votes: 2 2.9%

  • Sometimes

    Votes: 21 30.0%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 5 7.1%
  • Total voters
    70
  • Poll closed .
It at times gets unlucky but whats good about poker is variance no matter how bad of a run you get you will get better at some point or if you think some donkey who made a horrible call and hit his gut shot on the river players like him go broke over time due to variance you can go on insane streaks but if your a bad player you will go broke
 
Its a 50/50 thing. It involves skill and luck but in my opinion its more skill
 
It's a game of skill until the skill levels are equal. In that case, luck plays a big role. If you have a table of 4 players who are 8/10 skills and 5 that are 9/10, the players that run the best are going to win.

But, it's still a game of skill because you can use that logic for any skill based competition.
 
i would say they are waiting for fish. I know that in the casinos i frequent there are always a few faces you see every time. This i'm sure is the same in all other casinos because If you are playing op of your game and have hours and hourd of patience you will have the periodic fish swim across your striking distance and lunch is served.
These faces that you see every time most likely live near by nd pay there rent support their bills entirely by "fishing". So someone intending to get better to beat good players are just egotystical dummies that are persuing gratification and Gratification is not exactly a currency accepted for your rent Soooo ... Id go with the fishing theory.
 
It's both. You can't deny it's not luck and you can't deny it's not skill. You can have people winning multiple tournaments a year, but you can also have someone who gets AA or KK dealt in a cooler situation.
 
there was a lot of good responses. but the more skilled player will raise to the top in the run of poker. Luck only goes so far.
 
You need both of them. You need to learn how to play poker, if you want to win money and play good. Also you need some luck in some situations, when you already behind, but if you get some luck, you can still stay in the game. So, you need this two things.
 
I think is more skill then luck.

Because most of Pros are everytime in the money. This can't be luck. This are skills!
 
Everything in life is a gamble to some extent. Poker is clearly a game of skill based on information gathering. Dependant on your ability/skill to ascertain this information and use to your advantage will always determine whether you're a winning or losing player.
 
I think that in order for you to understand what poker is, it is worth reading this article
Аs a spectator sport, poker traditionally isn’t the most engaging thing to watch. I realised this when I found myself in the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas a few years ago. I was there for a couple of days with a friend, and being a fan of poker, thought it would be fun to check out a high stakes game there. It wasn’t. Nothing happens – you see lots of people insist on wearing sunglasses in a windowless room, some cards and chips moving around a table, and occasionally someone being banished with a sullen look on their face, because they no longer have any chips in front of them at that particular time. Watching poker in real life is boring................

..Continued on the site..........https://www.theguardian.com/science.../14/poker-game-skill-luck-cepheus-bot-program
 
John Bor said:
I think that in order for you to understand what poker is, it is worth reading this article

Аs a spectator sport, poker traditionally isn’t the most engaging thing to watch. I realised this when I found myself in the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas a few years ago. I was there for a couple of days with a friend, and being a fan of poker, thought it would be fun to check out a high stakes game there. It wasn’t. Nothing happens – you see lots of people insist on wearing sunglasses in a windowless room, some cards and chips moving around a table, and occasionally someone being banished with a sullen look on their face, because they no longer have any chips in front of them at that particular time. Watching poker in real life is boring................



..Continued on the site..........https://www.theguardian.com/science.../14/poker-game-skill-luck-cepheus-bot-program
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Well played sir. Nice cut and paste job! #Getyourpostcountup
 
bredaman7 said:
Hi Everyone,
This is my first thread, I want to join this forum because I want to share my experiences, about poker or gambling. Ok, let me start regarding the title. Poker game that was considered as game of skill is no longer true. Why I can say this? just think about a match of two football teams. They are in the same skill, same level, and so what is the factor that determine the winner? LUCK, yes, luck, either by penalty, or wait until one of the teams got tired and have little focus. This example also valid to poker, when all the players on the table know how to read tells, betting pattern, playing position, know value of cards, then what is the point of having those skills, while others also knew it, it becomes what so called "common knowledge" in game theory. Nowadays, we can see lots of information bout poker everywhere, especially youtube. Books aren't that exclusive anymore, everybody can get "free" information. So nowadays poker almost can be called "gamble". You play poker and you can say that you "gamble". It is like blackjack when you cannot count cards anymore. I agree that there are still lots of fishes out there when you can suck out. But still, you "gamble" to find a fish, if there is any. so, now poker is just a game of luck and chance, you wait until you got the best cards, best flop, best turn, and best river. That is why poker legends are slowly being replaced by young poker players, they cant dominate this poker world anymore.
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Patience is also part of poker skill and instinct to get a good timing whatever the hand you have, not all skill players have this one.

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I do not agree with the statement that poker is purely a game of luck and chance. If this was the case there wouldn't be any professional player. People don't make good money out of poker just by chance. Although luck at times plays a big part it's skill that differentiate the successful players from the others.
 
All of the above. Sure, poker is a game of skill - but it is also a game of luck. You can play the game "the right way" and still lose, if you never get the cards. How you make up for these downturns in "luck" is to play the other players, rather than the cards.
 
Being on this forum, reading this topic and others, that's what I understood: poker is a game of balance of luck and experience. If you play against newbies or turbo tournaments, then only luck will help. Long tournaments or games against professional players - you need experience. But luck will not be superfluous), and more important is the experience, because over time we are increasingly playing long tournaments against experienced players. And then, luck is not eternal, and experience is always
 
Poker is a combination of skill and luck. If luck wasn't in poker at all, as in chess, there wouldn't be so much Fish - people, who think they can play well. If it was just luck, then in poker there wouldn't be professional players
 
This topic has been done to death. It's mostly luck, but as has been quoted elsewhere 'The more I practice, the luckier I become'
 
Royal_074 said:
Poker is a combination of skill and luck. If luck wasn't in poker at all, as in chess, there wouldn't be so much Fish - people, who think they can play well. If it was just luck, then in poker there wouldn't be professional players
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I agree with you. Only, as i wrote a little earlier - you still need to consider the kind of the game. In turbotourners luck prevails. In long tournaments - skill.
 
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