Poker - Game of skill or chance???

Nikitis · #1 (**permalink**) 04-11-2007, 07:16 PM

What % of skill does everyone think? It's obviously some of both......so how much?

Porg · #2 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 03:50 AM

I assume you mean in the long run, not one session?

I chose 90-100%.

davidab157 · #3 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 04:31 AM

In the long run luck evens out, 100% skill.

I hope willsparrow doesn't see this thread

Mr.McJ · #4 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 05:33 AM

Winning or losing in poker is all luck......winning more and losing less is all skill.
- Copyright Mr.McJ

feint06 · #5 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 10:11 PM

It depends entirely on the skill of your opponents. If you are at a table of equals (or all are more skilled), then it's a game of luck. If you catch the cards, you win...

If you're the most skilled player at the table, in the long run you have the best of it...

bigblind · #6 (**permalink**) 04-14-2007, 08:46 PM

i said 70-90% of skill becuase you need to have luck to win a big one online

Sid_07 · #7 (**permalink**) 04-22-2007, 07:29 AM

I said 70 - 90% of skill also. knowing how to best extract the chips from your opponents is skill. Calling an all in with j 8 os when you have a 10 to 1 chip lid is skill/knowledge. Flopping the nut straight is luck
him suxing out on the river with a full house sucks
lol

FaDi · #8 (**permalink**) 04-22-2007, 09:46 AM

If it wasn't majority skill then we wouldn't have pros.