The longer you play poker the better you become ?

[mOgliE]

It is a game which require a lot of experience  and skills I order to beat the dealer and other parties . Also if you are smart you should be able to play with that confident  that other players pack their cards thinking the other person have better cards and leave the game .

The dealer?

In which version of the game do you have to beat the dealer? Oo
Poker is PvP not player versus the bank!

[adzino]

What do you think can be a consistent winning player on this game? is this game of skills or luck?
the longer you play more skills you get?

Bluffing is a skill and getting 4 of a kind is luck.So in my opinion, poker depends on both skill and luck. The more you play, the better chances of winning since you start to understand everything better. The more you play with the "same" opponents, the higher the chances you have in winning the table since you get to know your opponent better and will be able to call his bluffs.

[eternalgloom]

It's definitely a game of skill, but I personally do not believe that by playing longer you automatically get better.
You actually need to study strategy and odds calculations, together with practicing, in order to get better at the game.

It's perfectly possible to play for years, just as a fun pastime and not actually get any better at the game.
Without being able to do odds calculations on the fly and accurately basing your decisions of off those calculations, you will probably improve very little.

[harizen]

What do you think can be a consistent winning player on this game? is this game of skills or luck?
the longer you play more skills you get?

The longer you play, the more you will be used to it. Therefore, you will now able to play at any set of cards at any case even the worst ones. That's the advantages of having a long term experience especially at card games.

While building that experience, you will be in lots of situations wherein a different strategy should be applied. Since you are now used to it, you can cope up with the situation and you are increasing your chance to win on that round. A bad set of cards can win over a dominant set with a good strategy.

Luck is always there but for luck to come to us, we need to increase it's chances. And skills will be the one who will increased it.

[bitmover]

Playing is not important, studying and practicing is.

Yes.

You will eventually become better the more you play, until a certain point. To become better, you need to study. It´s a skill that you need to develop in order to become a better player.

There are tons of tutorials on the internet: youtube, blogs, magazines, where you can read about techniques that will help you improve your gameplay.

[carlfebz2]

What do you think can be a consistent winning player on this game? is this game of skills or luck?
the longer you play more skills you get?

When we do talk about dice and other luck-based games then experience and skills wont really matter at all but since you do talk about poker then I would say that experience does really count but
yet luck would still play a major role in all sorts of gambling because skills wont really be effective to win if luck isn't on your side. Experience is a big count on this type of card game.

[Indamuck]

Poker is a mental game it is for sure based on skills.  Just look at how many professionals can consistently win tournaments.  I do think you can become a better player through practice but I do think a large part of it is mental.  You are either born with the ability or not, practice can only do so much to your natural talent.

[eternalgloom]

Poker is a mental game it is for sure based on skills.  Just look at how many professionals can consistently win tournaments.  I do think you can become a better player through practice but I do think a large part of it is mental.  You are either born with the ability or not, practice can only do so much to your natural talent.

Born with what ability? To be good at poker? That sort of explanation seems a little bit too vague.
i do think people can be born with better analytical insight than other people, but I also think you can improve those ability through practice and learning.

In the end you just have learn how to stack the odds against you, while playing against other human players.

[deisik]

Poker is a mental game it is for sure based on skills.  Just look at how many professionals can consistently win tournaments.  I do think you can become a better player through practice but I do think a large part of it is mental.  You are either born with the ability or not, practice can only do so much to your natural talent.

Born with what ability? To be good at poker? That sort of explanation seems a little bit too vague.
i do think people can be born with better analytical insight than other people, but I also think you can improve those ability through practice and learning.

In the end you just have learn how to stack the odds against you, while playing against other human players.

I don't think that it works this way in real life

Since otherwise you could just stick to something which you choose based on purely financial terms and then, with patience, practice and perseverance, learn "how to stack the odds in your favor" and become a success. To become a success, you should first find something to your liking, let's call it your true calling, for simplicity's sake. And only based on that foundation you can proceed to achieving new heights. To rephrase it more figuratively, you don't choose poker, poker chooses you

[vintages]

So true, it just like being better in what you enjoy doing because the more you play,  the better you become in your game.  And this applies to not just poker but to all games,  cause as you play,  you learn new methods that leads to winning. So don't overlook the saying that 'practice makes you.  perfect'.

[hahay]

Skills and luck in gambling are inseparable, if you have good skills but if you are not lucky, then you will lose too. But in online poker to fight the house, believe it or not / coincidence or not, they are like having certain hours for us to make continuous profits and wins in just a few minutes, and in a day there are certain hours that seem right for us to enter the game. This has happened to me so often at that time, because for now I haven't tried it yet and I hope it's still the same.

[czechkid]

The more you play the better you will get for sure but in order to win you will also need luck cuz as every gambling poker requires a lot of luck

[Oceat]

Poker game needs both luck and skills for you to win on the game, if you are skilled but no luck you will get beaten by noobs and same thing for luck but no skill and yes ofcourse the longer you play the more experience you will have

He is right that is why there is a skill for bluffing to make your opponent rethink of what he wants to do. Yeah, that makes your opponent to get distracted and getting confused in a game is an advantage for a player. But i think there is no person that has no luck because luck is just a belief that doesn't affect your whole life.

[STT]

if you have good skills but if you are not lucky, then you will lose too

The skill is recognising when its bad luck and not losing or risking most at that point.   Everyone has good and bad luck mixed, Im not a real big believer in the winning streak more then some days people should know themselves and only risk a little because they are not upto their usual game.   Dont tilt etc

Length of play would improve not just the game itself but the regulation of yourself in that game, if you lose it on a loss then it only gets worse

[Johnyz]

What do you think can be a consistent winning player on this game? is this game of skills or luck?
the longer you play more skills you get?

I don’t know but as far as I know, the longer you gamble the more chances of becoming addict. In poker you need to decide good decision, and if you have enough experience you can earn more but still it will be base on your luck. In gambling the chances of winning is not high and expect to lose money even if you do strategies.

[samcrypto]

What do you think can be a consistent winning player on this game? is this game of skills or luck?
the longer you play more skills you get?

I don’t know but as far as I know, the longer you gamble the more chances of becoming addict. In poker you need to decide good decision, and if you have enough experience you can earn more but still it will be base on your luck. In gambling the chances of winning is not high and expect to lose money even if you do strategies.

Yeah, if you play everyday for months now in gambling I think its too risky for you since its not about gaining experience anymore but for me its more on addiction now. Play poker moderately, it can still make you better just know how to learn from your experiences, from there you can get some learning and apply it when you gamble again.

[Barcode_]

Even though I am not a professional player in poker, but I think this game does require some talents too, as there are many players who have been playing poker for many years but they will still find themselves losing to younger poker players sometimes, I think there are some similarities between poker player and professional gamer, some gamer are just not suitable to become a professional gamer no matter how hard they train themselves in the game.

[Indrawan77]

Poker is one the unique gambling game that require skill, and yes the longer you play the better you will become, you can know better when to bluff or when to fold, how to read the situation and how you could control yourself, the more your practice your skill then you will have better skill to control the situation

[MFahad]

It is a game which require a lot of experience  and skills I order to beat the dealer and other parties . Also if you are smart you should be able to play with that confident  that other players pack their cards thinking the other person have better cards and leave the game .

Well, among the gambling games, i think poker is a game which need some skills but luck again play a major role in winning or losing in poker. I like poker because there is something to think about and we can make moves according to our decisions and of course its an interesting game.

[emberbekas]

What do you think can be a consistent winning player on this game? is this game of skills or luck?
the longer you play more skills you get?

It will be impossible to get a consistent winning in poker. Poker is a game that require skill and luck. The longer we play, the more skill we will get, just the same with other games, but it won't give a guarantee for us to win everytime. Even though someone has a good skill at poker but if luck isn't on his side, he will be lose anyway. Generally speaking, gambling is a matter of luck.