Playing poker is a gambling activity?

[BitMaxz]

It is considered gambling only if you are gambling money. There are many different versions of Poker. For example "Strip Poker" which means instead of losing money, you lose your clothes.

Though i think, gambling is not all about money, i think it is about winning or losing something, regardless of the bet, fighting or looking forward for an outcome with certain chance is gambling. hehe..

I don't agree with you do you think if you are playing basketball  and you will win or lose do you call it gambling?
For no its a sports that there is win and lose..
Gambling is always involve money to bet that's why we called it gambling..

[RussianRaibow]

If they have to pay money to enter the tournament then of course it is gambling.  I don't understand how it couldn't be.  I just looked up the term "gamble" and it says "play games of chance for money; bet."  It doesn't matter if they are doing it professionally for a job, they are still playing a game of chance for money.

[Phildo]

To people who say it's gambling....
Oh ok so do we have professional slot and dice tournaments ?
Why do you think that is ? Poker have professional players and it's a sport and on TV and sanctioned and everything. Are slots sanctioned ? Are slots on TV ? Would you pay to watch someone play slots ? No, but you pay to watch poker. If poker were gambling there would be no professionals.

So if you think poker is like gambling then go play against professionals , since its gambling and luck it won't matter who you play against.

Omg some peoples logic outstounds me ! 

What does being professional have to do with it?

There are professional poker players, professional sports bettors, professional horse bettors, etc. They are all still gambling.

noun
1.
the activity or practice of playing at a game of chance for money or other stakes.
2.
the act or practice of risking the loss of something important by taking a chance or acting recklessly:

How does poker not fall into that definition? If you find a poker player that never puts money into the pot when they have a chance of losing, you can say they aren't gambling. But since poker is designed to make that impossible, they are gambling.

If being able to do something makes something not gambling, nothing is gambling because casino owners make all of their money by winning bets. if playing poker isn't gambling, neither is playing blackjack as the house, and that certainly doesn't make sense.

[shadobitz]

For me it nothing more than gambling, I play poker to make profit but it is very nice way to have fun online, some people say it is skill based game on only few players can make very good profit with very low risk factor, but I am pretty sure playing poker is just another form of gambling.

[fulgdenea]

I am also taking poker to do gamble, I have very simple definition of gambling where we put our money it is gambling, I also like to spend my time on poker sites because it is fun but not easy to beat other experienced players, I am just learning more and more about this at the moment.

[kryptqnick]

I actually mean playing poker professionally,like taking part in tournament's,etc.
Do you think that it is considered all across the world as gambling?

I suppose so. Wikipedia says poker is a gambling thing

[Phildo]

For me it nothing more than gambling, I play poker to make profit but it is very nice way to have fun online, some people say it is skill based game on only few players can make very good profit with very low risk factor, but I am pretty sure playing poker is just another form of gambling.

thinking it needs to be one or the other. It is a skill based form of gambling.

It takes skill to know when to bet, fold, raise, etc. the gambling part is that the results are still determined based on the turn of a card.

[Gustavv]

if you playing poker just for fun is not gambling
but if you playing poker with money of course it called gambling dude

[Noctis Connor]

I actually mean playing poker professionally,like taking part in tournament's,etc.
Do you think that it is considered all across the world as gambling?

Well if you play poker with someone and bet your money, well its now called gambling. Any games that has a relation/involve in money is a gambling even though that for you its not. I think casino has a poker game, so it is gambling then. 

[amine14madrid]

when you don't know what you are doing then everything will turn to gambling , so poker for newbies is gambling but those newbies will have better results and they will start making money when they understand the game
it's possible to make money constantly in poker but you need to have the skills for that , and those skills require experience
so basically in poker every player start as a loser when he just starts playing , but with time and if you study the game you will start making money.

[adibe]

I actually mean playing poker professionally,like taking part in tournament's,etc.
Do you think that it is considered all across the world as gambling?

Is that tournament also need a buy-in or pay some money for join that tournament ? If yes, i think yeah playing poker is also a gambling, because you bet with your money too.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Of course it's gambling.  You're betting money in a game, and any game that you can find in a casino is gambling.   

I assume that religions that prohibit gambling include poker as a subset of that, though I've not talked to god lately.

[densuj]

I actually mean playing poker professionally,like taking part in tournament's,etc.
Do you think that it is considered all across the world as gambling?

Some people say that poker is gambling and there are some people say that poker is art counting (can be predicted), what ever your opinions it has high risk so do it with you can lost it.

[Xenophoto]

Not sure why is this even a topic in here. Anyone who has a functioning brain knows that the answer to this question is "Yes." Playing poker is a gambling activity for you are risking your money in hopes that you'll win and the money would return with profit.

OP's asking if it's still a gambling activity if it's in a tournament. Of course, no matter what type of round that is, as long as you risk money, poker is still a gambling activity.

Do you think that it is considered all across the world as gambling?

Why wouldn't it be considered as gambling on the other part of the world? The same thing applies to any part of the world. Poker is gambling.

[csnorthchina]

Um...I think it is still a gambling activity, as you don't know the result and betting money on that...

[doublemore]

I actually mean playing poker professionally,like taking part in tournament's,etc.
Do you think that it is considered all across the world as gambling?

Its known as advantage gambling, i used to play serious and never considered it gambling at all even though money would go up and down.  At the end of the month i was always up since i played so many tables/hands.

[sulendra12]

Yes , if you playing with money as a bet it's called gambling.
It's doesn't matter playing poker , dice , or sports betting as you deposited your money for betting.

[trafficolaa]

Poker is one of the oldest gamble game, I also like to consider it like other gambling games, it is a little bit a different when we play against other players not with machine, I like to enjoy to play poker but not on regular with my daily routine only when I have nothing to do.

[s0beit]

i play poker many times.
but didn't involved money in this game.so it's just a game for me.

[Farma]

i play poker many times.
but didn't involved money in this game.so it's just a game for me.

Well, poker is a game that comes from the casino, and it is a game that is commonly used for gambling. but if you do not use the betting in play, I think it's just a mind game and not gambling. but this is just my opinion, it is not gambling if you're not risking anything in it