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[ineffabelle]

Poker is not gambling. In Poker, over a long enough span of hands, in theory, everyone gets the same amount of "sets", i.e., everyone will get the same number of Pairs,2 Pair, Three of a Kind, Straights, etc.
There are no actual "odds" in poker, in the long run. Once you see your cards, you have a temporary set of odds, in that hand, but over the span of the game there are no odds.
When you play poker in a casino, you and the other players are essentially renting the table space and paying someone to deal the cards to you, but the house has no incentive to "jack" anyone.
Since everyone sees the same sets in the long run, Poker is actually a game of skill, based on:
1. your ability to decieve and not be decieved by the other players betting strategies and pantomimes.
2. your ability to calculate complex expected values in your head, in order to facilitate #1.

Comments

[machinedelmorte.livejournal.com]

trust me, it's gambling. If you told all that to anyone at the casino they would think your drunk, counting cards or something else.

[zachariahskylab.livejournal.com]

Well as a purely altruistic strategy you can also try to lose all your money equally amongst the other players at the table. This is actually just as challenging, if not more so, than trying to win all of the money at the table.