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Video Poker Is a Game of Skill

Posted by : Charlie River | 3 Comments

22

Feb

Categories : Skill vs chance

All this talk of poker being a skill game makes me sick.

It’s trivial, and it’s not the most important thing to say about poker when it comes to legislation.

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There’s an element of skill in video poker too, but it’s still a sucker game. Here’s why:

  • Video poker is unfair. Even if you make perfect decisions, you can’t win.
  • Video poker is antisocial. You play alone against a machine. There’s no exciting struggle between equal opponents.
  • The skill in video poker is restricted to odds calculations. You don’t need any psychological insights, there’s no game theory, there’s no tactics or strategy.

Those are the things that make poker such a fine game. This is why poker should be legalized and not even mentioned together with sucker games like video poker, roulette, Keno etc.

The GPTS and the PPA are doing a great job in courts across the country, fighting for the rights of poker players with the main argument that poker is a game of skill.

Kudos for that, but this method reduces poker to the same size as video poker, while in reality it’s so much bigger.

I’ve said it before: poker is more than just skill.

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Video Poker is a Game of Skill

Comments (3)

  1. dan   February 23, 2010 at 3:19 am

    Yes poker involves more than skill, but there is a reason why they use that argument. The main classifications for games when it comes to legality are games of skill, and games of chance. The argument that they make and try to prove is that poker is a game of skill and not a game of chance.

  2. compncards   February 22, 2010 at 9:11 pm

    Ya, video poker is a sucker game. That’s why I am up over $3,000 on VP since last summer. Compncards translates to sucker in blindstealy language.

  3. Gösta   February 22, 2010 at 2:15 pm

    Hey, what about those legendary Deuces Wild-machines where you’re supposed to have a marginal advantage with a perfect strategy?

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