Monday, February 22, 2010

Shut up donk! Poker is a skill game!

Shut up donk! Poker is a skill game!
      
          I have been playing poker since 2004, I have been playing poker full time since 2005. I play all kinds of poker, hold em, horse, razz, stud, badugi, Omaha, 8 game. I have played hundreds of hours in ring games, and thousands of tournaments and sit and gos.

          I have encountered thousands of bad beats, I have encountered thousands of good plays. Each day playing poker is different from the next. Some days I run good, some days I run bad. Some days I bluff a lot, and some days I do not.

        One thing that remains the same each and every time I play poker is, the skill it takes to play. I am so sick of people saying poker is a game of chance, a game of luck. If it were a game of chance and luck, would I be able to make plays based on numbers and math? Would I be able to read my opponents and determine what my next move is based on them?

      Luck will only get you so far in poker, you have to have skill, you have to be able to make the big decisions when it really counts. Being able to pull the trigger, go all in with a hand that is weak, that takes skill, and some guts. There is no easy decision in poker, and that is because of the real skill involved. If poker was a luck game, there would be no poker pros.

   Going all in with 63 suited and going up against AA and winning. The skill involved in that is being able to push with the 63 not winning with it.

This is is why playing poker is clearly a game of skill”

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