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Message: [QUOTE="LongRover, post: 4380495, member: 278903"] [b]Poker - game of skill or chance[/b] [FONT=Garamond]Is Poker a Game of Skill or Chance? Some say poker is good and bad luck - that it's about chance. I say poker is not so simple. Online or offline; by algorithim or dealer; if 2 to 10 are seated; if seated in the first, mid or last seat - it is said one is lucky or unlucky in their cards. Maybe, but all changes when the impact of the human element is made. [/FONT] Why?Because poker is about people as much as chance. It is how people deal with chance; with themselves; and with others; and with their own views of the game. So, poker is about how players have their own perspectives of the game and despite wide differences, it is about how all manage to play a game that is common to the efforts of each to win. Given this, it's fair to say that poker is a game about which many have different views, including those that claim it is not all about chance. It is impossible to list all the different ideas that players have. One idea, already mentioned, is that poker is merely a game of chance; another is that it is as much about people and their ideas as it is about chance. This is an important factor because if poker is merely about chance, then it is akin to a brainless lotto in which whoever gets the winning cards, wins; and, conversely, whoever gets the losing cards, loses. [FONT=Garamond] Once people are accepted into the game of poker as an element as real as chance, [/FONT] something happens. People then bring their own preconceived ideas about poker into the game, and they play accordingly. [FONT=Garamond] To some players, poker is about expectations, outcomes and variances; about their trust [/FONT] in their own experience, knowledge, skill, strategy and decision-making while assessing values of hole cards in and of themselves, and as these later relate to cards dealt at the flop, turn and river. [FONT=Garamond] In one way, it is as if to say that chance exists not only in the cards, their delivery, the [/FONT] method of their delivery, the table position of players and the number of players, but also in the differences between the ideas that players hold about the game of poker around tables and within tournaments. In another way, it is the very presence of such a litany of ideas which reduces the notion of chance to just another perspective amongst many others. Is poker a game of skill or chance? Wasn't that the question? Let me answer by saying that the game of poker is much more than the one or the other. It is neither, yet both. It is both, yet more. Much, much, more [/QUOTE]

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