I can honestly say that poker is a game of skill AND luck. He began with less than $100 and is now over $100,000 bankroll, and is going to FOR SURE make in excess of $120,000 this year.

On top of that he plays and gets in roughly 30,000 hands a month. He takes it very seriously and reads/studies it for about 2-3 hours a day. He has been playing poker as his only source of income for over 2 years now. One of my closest friends is 20 years old and is currently going to university. I have played over 100 thousand hands (a computer program of mine keeps track of every single one) and as such have quite alot of experience (# of hands is far more important than years). I am 19 years old and have been playing online for a year and a half. You?ll never get to play a pickup game against Michael Jordan or a round of golf against Tiger, or tear up the track against Matt Kenseth, but you can plop your buy-in down and take on Doyle Brunson or Howard Lederer.įirstly, I wish to state my experience with poker so as to show that I do know what I am talking about. Chance can and will affect short-term results, but skill separates winners from losers over time. It is a contest of abilities, more akin to bridge or chess than it is to gambling, in that more-talented players will prevail against less-talented players. In essence, poker is fair, gambling is not. In poker, the house has no interest in the outcome, and is an impartial provider of services-for-a-fee, a forum for the players to compete equally against each other.Īnother major difference between poker and gambling is that the rules of poker accord every player a statistically equal chance to win, but the rules of gambling games all give the house a definite advantage against the player, which over time is inexorable and inevitable. The biggest distinction between poker and gambling is that in pretty much all gambling, you are playing against the house.

I read an interesting article today and I couldn’t give a better argument if I tried, so I’ll just give a few of the main points from the article and let you read the whole thing if you are interested. I invite everyone who believes this to come play a fews sessions of poker at my house, and we’ll see how much skill it takes to win! There are so many people out there that suggest or truly believe that there isn’t any skill involved in poker…just dumb luck. I had a very interesting conversation today at work about poker.

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