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Message: [QUOTE="bredaman7, post: 2479715, member: 115741"] [b]Poker, gambling game?[/b] I know there will be lots of poker players in this forum would disagree with me. In life, we would experience "mature" phase when someone can accept himself, for whoever he/she is. We remember back days when we were still in junior/senior high, there might be a person who is so perfect, a person whom we want to be. We adore this person too much until we create a standard in our mind that a person should be like him/her. What I wanna say is, until when we can reach that mature phase so that we accept this game as a gambling which involves a proportion of skill? blackjack is gambling yet it needs skill also (using basic strategy/card counting). If you have AA, you should go all in preflop --> If you have 11 against dealer below 7, you should double your bets. If the card counts is +20, then we should put max bets. Yet it can still lose. There is similarity between both games, but why we insist poker is not gambling? Daniel Negreanu once said in interview poker is gambling. Patrick Antonius in one of his cash game videos said, "if you want to win, you have to gamble" after he made big decision and won some pots. And I think they are in their mature phase of this game and accept losing lots of money because they already accept it is gambling. US government admit it is gambling while being fought by poker communities. But how about young kids out there who would like to gamble their future for this game in which online poker companies by their massive advertisement said it is game of skill? can their accept losing their money, and questioning why they lose although they have played their A game? it makes them keep playing while keep losing. And there are lots of debate whether it is luck or skill etc, gambling or not, and surprisingly many poker players and communities insist it is not gambling. Who is in advantage by this brainwashing perception? of course, like all the gambling games, it is the house = online poker companies. [/QUOTE]

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