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Poker Articles

If you want to keep up with all the strategy articles I've written, then look no further! Sort by topic, publication date, or alphabetical order. Some articles are available here in full. For others, check out the abstracts, and use the citations to obtain the articles in full.

Skill vs. Luck in Poker: An Analysis

Poker Pro, Oct 2007

Though poker has been around for hundreds of years, the question is still the subject of heated debate. It is one of the most elemental questions in all of poker, and one every poker player will be asked by some relative sooner or later, but it is also one that every serious player must resolve within himself. Because of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and recent court decisions, it’s also a question whose answer may prove vital for the future of Internet poker in the U.S., and brick-and-mortar poker in certain jurisdictions.

By this article’s conclusion, we’ll see that this question is actually tangential to what poker is really about. The only reason that this debate persists is because of how people misinterpret the nature of random events. To the uneducated eye, luck seems to dominate because the outcomes of certain hands are subject to random events. However, in the long run, skill dictates who ends up with the money, meaning that poker is unequivocally a game of skill, despite the impact that chance events may have in the short term.

Read the rest in Poker Pro.