With poker as poplar as it is now do you feel poker is more of a game of skill or is there more luck involved?

Answer 1

The luck factor in poker relates to what cards you are dealt, and what board cards hit and help your hand in relation to other hands. But that's as far as it goes. What you achieve with that hand, the way you maximize your winnings from that hand, that's all skill.

Anyone can have a reasonable chance of playing aces or kings. But big hands like that only happen every hundred hands or so (every 220 hands for each on average). What separates the average players from the world class players, is how well they handle the less impressive hands. The pots they earn, rather than the pots that fate hands them.

Those who believe that luck is a major factor are just not good at the game. Sure, there are times in a hand when luck plays a big part. But the longer the period of time you examine, the less luck becomes a factor. If you look at a poker players earnings over the course of an entire year, the luck factor should be well below 10%. If you are relying on luck for more than 10% of the course of a year, it is doubtful you will be a winning player.

Answer 2

Poker is always a game of skill, but luck always plays a part in a poker game. But in the end it is always skill that will win out. You just have a lot of donkeys that play that have no idea about odds or position, they won't give you credit for a hand when you raise a hand from under the gun. But you want others to play badly anyways, its just when they get lucky and put a bad beat on you it seems un-fair that they can play so bad and win, but in the end they will make mistakes and give there money to you. It can be 100% luck on some days or 20% luck, but over-all in the long run skill wins out.

Answer 3

I think even the pros, to a certain degree, depend on luck, but over the long haul skill is what makes or breaks 'em. For us amateurs luck is a bigger factor, The "friendly" games I play in,
there's a lot more luck than skill.
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Answer 4

its still mostly luck but there are strategies the pro's use

the way you bet tells a lot.. this is why people always want to see your hands when they fold. They learn by remembering what you did and how people play with certain hands (strong/weak)

change up your betting and as usual do not show ANY emotion. Its as simple as that and knowing the odds of each hand to win. http://cheats.interkeys.com/poker/

Answer 5

if you ever watch it on tv they are always talking about that. It takes a lot of skill to bluff your opponets and to make raises, but sometimes you need to count on luck to get that one card to make a great hand. If i had to choose between luck or skill, i would pick luck any day.

Answer 6

i guess it's more of skill, cause there are stategies which will work better if there are more opponents or less, also some mastered when and when not to play their hand.. they could analyze the possible remaining cards, the probability of the card to be drawn.. luck kicks in when your opponents or you really have good cards.. and also when your opponent fell for your bluff ^_^