dreamer13 said:
All online games will be banned in Brazil, including poker.
A guy from Latvia wants to know more than I do—and I'm Brazilian;
🤣 read below what a report from a renowned Brazilian newspaper says.
Today, around 7 million people play poker in Brazil, mostly online. In Curitiba, there are at least five venues where the game is played live every day. But why aren't these people arrested in the act, given that games of chance are prohibited in Brazil?
The answer is simple: because poker is not a game of chance. According to Article 50 of Decree-Law 3.688/41, a game of chance is one "in which winning and losing depend exclusively or primarily on luck." Casino
roulette, for example, falls into this category.
Poker is different because a player's skill makes a difference. Numerous studies prove this, showing that knowledge of the rules, the importance of table position, emotional control, the ability to read opponents and extract chips—among other factors—are more important in the medium and long term than the lucky card a player might hit.
To cite just a few studies, Cigital—a Canadian company specializing in software security and quality testing—analyzed 103 million
poker hands. The company concluded that in 63% of
hands, the player wins without showing their cards, with skill alone prevailing. However, regarding the remaining 37%, the hand that *should* have won folds halfway through more than half the time.
"According to this study, which has a negligible margin of error, luck plays a decisive role in only 12% of cases. There are dozens of other reputable studies indicating that luck is the deciding factor in poker between 10% and 16% of the time," says Igor Federal Trafane, president of the Brazilian Texas Hold’em Confederation—Texas Hold’em being the m