Poker is a game of skill, rather than luck...?

are you working for the usa goverment?poker is a game of skill.and this is the answer you will get here i am a poker player and i am telling you if a poker was a luak game i will looss every time becose i have a bed luak and i have left is my good skill so i winn all the time.

in regards to mick - the landmark case was won as a Supreme Court case involving professional poker player Billy Baxter in the 80s or early 90s- it stated because poker and some types of gambling are games of skill and not luck and can be treated as a business - you are entitled to all the exemptions and write offs a normal business person would - as far as recent there is a online whiz kid named Isildur1 on full tilt poker who has CRUSHED the games the last month winning supposedly 6 million dollars alone - he has been crushing the best pros in the game like Durrrr, Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey luck helps in poker and a lucky player can beat a GREAT player on any given day. HOWEVER luck can only get you so far - over time ALL players get the same number of cards and how you play the cards determines if you can be a sustained long term winner or if you are doomed to fail.

If you are writing a college-level paper, it may be better to use the term "probability" or the layman's "chance" rather than "luck." In my experience, poker is a balancing game between the two. Having one alone isn't enough. If you have skill but no luck, you'll eventually bleed chips until you're broke, after all, you can only bluff so many times before people realize you never have anything to back it up with. At the same time, if you can't tell when people are bluffing and play only on probability, the game is always skewed in the favor of the house, aka, not you.

IS POKER a game of skill or luck? For regular players that's a no-brainer, but showing that skill wins out has proven surprisingly difficult for mathematicians. Now two studies that tapped the vast amounts of data available from online casinos have provided some of the best evidence yet that poker is skill-based. Many hope that the results will help to roll back laws and court decisions that consider poker gambling, and therefore illegal in certain contexts. Most players insist that poker is predominantly skill. "I depended solely on that skill for my food and rent," says Darse Billings, a former professional player who co-founded the Computer Poker Research Group at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. In many jurisdictions, however, poker websites and organised games are heavily regulated or even banned under gambling laws, partly because chance is considered the dominant factor.

Poker is a mixture of skill and luck in almost every scenario - the only one I can think of that is pure luck only would be simple Showdown for fixed stakes...there, it would be luck of the cards only that determines who wins. In every other case, betting strategies, odds calculations, reading opponents and other such skills vastly outweigh simple luck. Luck is the cards you get, skill is what you do with them.

Search for court rulings in favor as poker as a game of skill rather than luck. This might be a more credible source than books written by poker players. A lot of them are pretty recent, and are from the state level down to local level. But also keep in mind you will find a lot of articles ruling just the opposite! Good luck (pun intended).

There are two simple answers to your postulation. 1. Poker playing is recognized as a viable form of self-employment by US tax authorities 2. Time and again, the same top pros make the final tables. The possibility that they are simply luckier than thousands of other players, year in, year out, is plainly false.

Well, the simple fact that many people do it for their primary career is a form of proof. Check out some of the top poker professionals and their average finishing position and income per year.

My thesis is 'Poker is a a game of skill rather than a game of luck'. That thesis statement seems to broad too me. I'd tighten it up.