Is poker a game of chance or skill?

[adaseb]

In theory its a game of chance because you don't pick what cards you will get. However its skilled based because with experience if you are good at reading your opponents you can give yourself an edge when to hold or when to fold.

[newcripto]

Definitely chances also have some role in every game like poker. It is more a game of skills plus tricks where sometimes factor of bluff works by making others realize that you have good card. It is a combination of skills and tricks more. If you have good card that is a big plus point to go with more flexibility.

[gabmen]

i thnk poker plays with both. that's what makes poker more fun for me than other gambling games as with poker you just don't depend on blind luck to win. of course luck is a factor but it's pretty much how you play your cards. experienced poker players know how to play with good and bad cards so i think it;s still a game of chance, but the more experienced you become, the more you'll understand how to read and play cards and you'll depend less on luck.

[maxhor]

Poker is a game of skill because it is widely played and professional gamblers do it. I think when you have skills you need just tiny support from chances but I have met some good players they say they don't need chances. They make their bets winning by themselves by relaying on their skills most.

[neochiny]

In this case, chance won over skill.    (still, going all-in for that chance on a straight. balls or skill?)

And, chance/luck is not a constant so, winning would depend more on skills, especially in poker.

[crairezx20]

I think its always depends in your chance but you still need skills poker games it needs also lucky you are not relaying in your skills just you need a partial of your skills and lucky to make a good game and profit in your plays in poker..

[marlboroza]

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Poker is game of skills, and these 2 players obviously don't know nothing about poker, either they were playing freeroll or micro tournament. You just don't raise on 2-4, only if it's blind steal, and you don't steal it with low raise, and you don't call small raise with nothing(6-7). If you do that, its called bingo, not poker, and if you continue to play like that, you will lose your bankroll very fast 

[outatime1]

There is skill and luck in poker. You have to know the chances of hands which requires some skill. If you count the cards, to remember what has been played, it requires some skill also. If you are playing with live people, you can gain an advantage if you can read the other players. However, you are also at the mercy of the cards dealt, which is luck.

[potatopower]

it's a game of both chance and skill

you are right, poker requires a lot of experience if you want to win some money though you need to be really lucky too in order to be dealt good cards

[StoreBit]

to me as luck is important for every game and without luck one cannot even win a simple game. but in most of the games you need some skill also which increase your winning chance therefore to me it is a game of luck as well as skill is also important for it.

[PeRo]

In my opinion, it is 50-50, you need both skill and luck to play, you can lose if you do not have skills, and if you do not have luck. Both are as important and there can't be pure skill playing, because gambling is based on luck, and you have to have luck to get good cards.

[Bitcoinsummoner]

I think poker is always depends in your skill but if you dont have a lucky you can not make any profit in your capital so both of them are needed to have make a good result..

[The Sceptical Chymist]

95% skills ...5% luck )

mmmm...I think it's way more luck than most people here think.  Then again, I don't see anyone trying to quantify it real well.  When I play I suck, so I know skill plays a big part.  But I think it's a lot of randomness.

[Bitinity]

It is a combination of skills and luck, skills on how to read the chance to win with the cards on your hands and the luck to make the chance to win bigger.  I would say 70% skills 30% luck.

[Script3d]

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poker is a game you need both skill and luck i dont know if you need both of it but im on skill side you also need to make a strategy that can help you to win but the strategy is not 100%

[Xenophoto]

I'd say poker is a game that involves 70% skill and 30% chance. The ability of you sensing that the other person holds a good card, ability to think of potential combinations, and knowing if you have to fold or raise or just check; all of them are skills and all of them are essentials to winning in poker.

In poker, you usually wait for a specific card/set of cards in order to win, no skill can make you draw a good card; only luck.

[izanagi narukami]

Mostly based on skill of bluffing. Just make sure that you have confident to take over the game and enough bankroll to all in.
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