Playing poker is a gambling activity?

[danherbias07]

Yes it is gambling. Putting a bet in a game is already gambling. There is much money that is taking place on that game so it is considered a high grade of a gamble. Millions are in the pot at the last rounds of the game.

It not the amount of money that makes it gambling, you can gamble for penny stakes at many sites.

The answer to the question is always it depend.  People like tom dwan aren't "gambling" really, just seems like it.  People like guy laliberte are always "gambling".

What?!!!! When you put money in a game it is gambling. Hell, even those who just shoots the last ball in a gameplay is just a gamble. Try just playing a game without money example is dice. Will it still be fun for you just rolling that dice?

[same21]

Yes playing is a party of gambling activity. Everything about life is gambling, even Poker. It is all matters with anticipating outcome of winning that you do by chance. Pokers require a skill, a very serious one. Poker is a form of gambling and a game of skill as well. Actually almost every competition is gambling.

[MinerHQ]

Yes playing is a party of gambling activity. Everything about life is gambling, even Poker. It is all matters with anticipating outcome of winning that you do by chance. Pokers require a skill, a very serious one. Poker is a form of gambling and a game of skill as well. Actually almost every competition is gambling.

Just playing poker game is not a gambling activity, while playing poker if you put your money in a risk then it is gambling activity. Yes, Poker game requires more knowledge to win this game. But many people play this game without money just to learn this game for them this game is not gambling activity.

[diegz]

Yes playing is a party of gambling activity. Everything about life is gambling, even Poker. It is all matters with anticipating outcome of winning that you do by chance. Pokers require a skill, a very serious one. Poker is a form of gambling and a game of skill as well. Actually almost every competition is gambling.

Not everything in life is gambling, you can't call picking a banana a gambling, you can't call harvesting as gambling, they are all part of survival, but, if you are putting a bet in it, or there is risking involved... For example, you want to pick banana, but you want to compete with others or you dare them that you could pick certain number of banana in an hour with the bet of $1, then that's gambling. But anyway, poker, if you are playing against yourself in real life, that's not gambling, and in online you are playing with bot and no money involve, that's not gambling.

[Positid]

Yes playing is a party of gambling activity. Everything about life is gambling, even Poker. It is all matters with anticipating outcome of winning that you do by chance. Pokers require a skill, a very serious one. Poker is a form of gambling and a game of skill as well. Actually almost every competition is gambling.

Not everything in life is gambling, you can't call picking a banana a gambling, you can't call harvesting as gambling, they are all part of survival, but, if you are putting a bet in it, or there is risking involved... For example, you want to pick banana, but you want to compete with others or you dare them that you could pick certain number of banana in an hour with the bet of $1, then that's gambling. But anyway, poker, if you are playing against yourself in real life, that's not gambling, and in online you are playing with bot and no money involve, that's not gambling.

To simplify your statement, anything that's competition and there's money involve is considered as a gambling activity and most gamblers do it because it will give more value of the things you will do. Poker is not gambling is no money involved as we can still play it without a bet. Besides, it's just a game.

Remember that even the elections can be a gambling as we are betting between Hillary and Trump now.

[hua_hui]

Playing poker is a gaming cause you are still leaving a large chance of result to luck. However, poker also relay on the skill of the players to have an edge over the others. So in this case, unless you are very capable of using your skills to increase the winning chances by a lot, otherwise it will be a gamble.

[ethereumhunter]

Playing poker is a gaming cause you are still leaving a large chance of result to luck. However, poker also relay on the skill of the players to have an edge over the others. So in this case, unless you are very capable of using your skills to increase the winning chances by a lot, otherwise it will be a gamble.

i agree with this because as long as we don't use money then its only a game and we play poker to increase our skill and we need to practice more and more so that can be useful when we are playing with other opponent and we can use our skill if we want to playing poker gambling with others player.