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Message: [QUOTE="IntenseHeat, post: 2550697, member: 92488"] This is a never ending question. In fact, there are two variations of this very topic floating around this forum right now. If and when these threads every die out, it will only be a matter of time before someone else once again asks the question of whether poker is a game of luck or skill. I’m generally going to say that poker is a predominantly a game of skill, with luck being a factor. How big a factor we consider luck to be would probably depend on the last game and the last few hands we played. Have you ever been in a game where you have been taking the whole table to school for hours. Changing styles, going from passive one minute to aggressive the next, switching from tight to loose and back? You’ve gone from playing ABC poker to trapping and check/raising to chip bullying. Your play has been unpredictable, your reads have been solid and your timing impeccable. You’ve nearly quadrupled your stack. Then it all goes to hell. Someone goes on tilt, goes all-in with nothing against your top two pair, only to hit running cards and make a straight, costing you a third of your stack. Minutes later, someone hits a gutshot on you, costing you another big chunk of chips. Then you pick up pocket aces. After some pre-flop raising and re-raising, you end up getting them all-in against a pair of 8s. Just as you start to think that you will take down the pot, play until your big blind comes back around and leave the table with more than double your buy-in, your opponent rivers a set, taking you down to the felt. If I were to ask you whether poker was a game of luck or skill, or how much does luck factor in to the game of poker at the point when your chips stack was at it’s peak, you might answer that question one way. If I were to ask you the same thing ten minutes later, after variance had just taken a bite out of your ass like a great white shark and you had just bled out on the felt, you would probably give a very different answer. For some players it’s always skill when they win and always luck when they lose. So the answer to the question of whether poker is a game of luck or skill would depend on whether you are winning or losing. [/QUOTE]

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