Poker Is More Skill Than Luck Says Academic Study

I definitely agree that poker is a skill game but there is much more too it than just telling someone to play fewer hands. A good poker player will develop their table image, play the right hands in the right position, study their opponent, know when to get out of a hand, know when to steal blinds, calculate pot odds, play off their opponents weaknesses, know when to bluff at a pot, and so much more. There is a lot involved when it comes to playing poker and anyone who sits down at a table thinking otherwise might as well just give away all their money.

I think the ones doing that academic study could have been a little less lazy and provided a more in-depth study which would have proven their theory without a doubt. Then again… who needs an academic study when we see the same pros at the final tables of every large tournament.