Not trying to be unpopular here, but, yeah, poker IS a game of chance – 100%.
You can have two Aces and your oponent 6 and 9, and you could be the most skilled poker player in the world – and still there are 5 more cards which can turn around the game based on pure CHANCE.
Is it skill – no, because EVERYONE can win a hand, and EVERYONE has the CHANCE to win 100% of the hands when playing for a first time!
Now you go play chess against a grossmaister – that’s skill. You may know all the gambits in the world – and you will still lose. Or win a shooting competition when you hold a gun for a first time. Not like some Canadian guy I was watching the other day – winning a championship of a kind after playing poker for 9 months.
And which part of this was bad news? That some guy did not pay his gambling license? Or because the country that has done the most to keep us in business busted his land-based arse?