| Posted by: Gizzi315 at July 18, 2006, 3:58 am | | Topic: Skill, luck and addiction. Forum: Card Chat |
I like "skambling" best I think And as Juicee said, the debate over luck and skill will likely never end.
When it comes to the addiction part, each of us needs to decide for ourselves when it stops being fun and starts being an obsession. It seems to me that the line between those two can ary a great deal. Not sure if that is the sort of comment you were looking for Alon......... guess I should find and read Dingopdaddy's thread to be sure.
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| Posted by: DESSERTLADY at July 17, 2006, 6:00 pm | | Topic: Skill, luck and addiction. Forum: Card Chat |
Okay here is my 2 cents worth.
I agree on both arguments if you can agree with both sides?
Even though you may know pot odds, EV, ratios etc...... You can't control these, you just know what they are with each card to come. You don't know what card is going to come out next either. You can't control that. You can just basically calculate your "chances" of you making the flush, straight, full house etc...... with each card coming out. You can't control the donkey sitting at the other end of the table holding 72os that hits his boat on the turn.
The only things you can control is your Bankroll, how well you play the cards your dealt, how well you play the players sitting at your table. Also you can control your emotions whether you go on tilt or not. You can control what information that you want to send out to your opponents. And how you handle the donkey at the other end holding that 72os full house when you hit your flush.
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| Posted by: MrSticker at July 17, 2006, 2:59 pm | | Topic: Skill, luck and addiction. Forum: Card Chat |
Before I knew how to skillfully play it, I would want to classify poker as "gambling". If you are betting on the outcome of random cards, sure it's a gamble. A gambler would think "I'll just put my money out there and see what happens." Same with blackjack, craps, roulette, etc.
But then I learned one thing that makes this game a whole lot less of a "gamble": I can control this game, baby! I can control the odds. I can control my opponents' willingness to defend. I can control the information my opponents get.
Hmmm. Sounds kinda like baseball or football or basketball. Sure, there's luck in those sports, also. Some parts of those games are a "gamble". Stealing a base is a gamble. A fake punt is a gamble. Double-teaming a basketball player is a gamble. Do these things make these sports "gambling", also? Golf is another great example. Try playing golf on a windy day. Good luck! (pun intended)
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| Posted by: starfall at July 17, 2006, 9:12 am | | Topic: Skill, luck and addiction. Forum: Card Chat |
The way of looking at the balance of luck and skill is over a given number of hands. Although tenbob over-egged it a big, in one hand, it's mostly luck. Over 10 hands, it's still significantly more luck than skill. Depending on the game, skill may be starting to show after around 100 hands, but luck is still probably a bigger factor, as you can easily have a session of over 100 hands where you miss most of your hands, or get lucky just a couple of times, to have the effects of luck swamping the trend created by skill. Over 1000 hands, you'll generally see skill coming into prominence, with luck starting to balance out, but again a serious up or down swing can bias that. Only after more like 10,000 hands will you have a large enough sample to expect the main factor to be luck.
If you translate that into sessions, you can get lucky once or twice against an opponent and take them to the cleaners, whether they're a pro or not. Over a 2-3 hour session online, the pro's skill would be starting to tel... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: combuboom at July 17, 2006, 9:03 am | | Topic: Skill, luck and addiction. Forum: Card Chat |
My opinion:
I think the real question was whether or not poker is gambling. I explained it pretty simply in the other topic. Look up the definition of gambling. Then look up the definition of the word "certain". Certain is 100%. Apply that to poker, and realize how often you're 100% to win a hand.
Tenbob, according to your logic, poker isn't gambling if you play 10 billion hands. So is it gambling if you play 10,000? How about only 10? What if you played one billion separate sessions of 10 hands each? Was each of those 10 hands a gambling session, yet all of them combined was not gambling? You have to realize this logic essentially doesn't make sense. Poker either is a gambling game or it isn't.
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| Posted by: Alon Ipser at July 16, 2006, 10:33 pm | | Topic: Skill, luck and addiction. Forum: Card Chat |
Sorry, This post was not to put anyone down but to make a seperate point and as I stated above that I didn't think belonged in Dingodaddy's post.
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| Posted by: tenbob at July 16, 2006, 10:16 pm | | Topic: Skill, luck and addiction. Forum: Card Chat |
Err Alon
Hope you dont think it was my post that caused this.
Anyway my opnion, over 10thousand million hands poker is 99.99999999999999% SKILL
Over 1 hand its 99.99999999999999% luck
Everything else falls somewhere in between. With the gamblers fattening the pot for the rest of us.
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| Posted by: Alon Ipser at July 16, 2006, 10:07 pm | | Topic: Skill, luck and addiction. Forum: Card Chat |
I wanted to address the arguement in Dingodaddy's thread about whether gambling is a game of skill or luck. I believe it is a game of skill with elements of luck just like cribbage or backgammon. Luck has a lot to do with the game but in the long run the best players will be on top. However when you figure addiction into the equation, it is just a game of luck. An addict has no self control and you can not be a good player without self control. It is ery hard for a non addict to understand the lose of control but believe, it happens. So when he said "flame away" it was just him being ery down on himself and not what he needed.
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