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Poker - skills or luck
Many people truly believe that there isn’t any skill involved in poker…just dumb luck. Of course, if you play poker only once during your lifetime, luck is a huge factor, and it doesn't matter if you are up against the best player in the world. You can get lucky and receive a superb hand, win the pot, and then never play again. Was luck a factor? Definitely!
But Poker is a game of skill. Anyone who thinks poker is a game of luck doesn't understand the game.It is a contest of abilities, more alike chess than it is to gambling, in that more-talented players will prevail against less-talented players. Chance can and will affect short-term results, but skill separates winners from losers over time.
In Poker game, a player's decision to hold or fold, is based on two things. Courage and the odds against getting the card one needs. The skillful or professional poker player disguises the one while demonstrating the other. Fear can be detected by the skillful player, and, indeed any hint of euphoria. So as well as accurately weighing the odds, the ability to read body language provides such a player a double advantage. The unskillful player, exposes himself, demonstrates to his opponents a lack of skill and is therefore likely to be poor at balancing the odds. He will ultimately lose.
Eventually, if no one sees any cards, the cards did not play a role in the outcome. Thus, the outcome was determined by the betting of the players, which is clearly a process of skill or strategy.
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