What kinda crack are you two smokin’? :tongue:
Gawd I cannot believe I am letting myself get drawn in to such a futile debate while Rome is burning, but I don’t understand how otherwise educated people can believe the utterly silly things I’m reading here.
Yes, Gooner, I was never arguing about the element of chance… read the posts again. It’s the degree of chance vs. skill.
NO ONE EVER SAID POKER IS NOT GAMBLING.
NO ONE SAID POKER HAS NO ELEMENT OF CHANCE.
But if you think for one second that poker is anything like roulette or slots… well… see the crack smokin’ comment above. All that was said was that the element of chance is present in many other things otherise considered a skill.
It’s this such a difficult concept?
And BTW, So what if poker is gambling? What part of the skill / luck debate does that even play into? Gambling can be done on anything… skill or not… I could bet you $1,000 that the sun will come up in the west tomorrow and I bet you take that bet… even giving me 100-1.
Not trying to be unpopular here, but, yeah, poker IS a game of chance – 100%.
You and Gooner drinking the same Wild Turkey? You’re obviously no poker player. :wink-wink
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.
OK then… I tell ya what:
You give me the two aces, and I’ll give you a 6 / 9 , and we’ll play for $100 a hand and see who has the most cash at the end of the night. Wanna go? No? Well why not?
Because you know that’s a dumb thing to do and you’d lose a lot of money.
So which is it then? If poker is really 100% chance as you say (and I’m still laughing about that) then you should take me up on my offer…
… if not, then you’re theory is wrong. 😎