Poker isn't that skillful, nor it is interesting in any way more than any other gambling/luck-based game, amirite?

There's more skill involved in poker than any other casino game.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Hmm good point, but my point still stands about it in media. It's overhyped

by Anonymous 2 days ago

You sound like you don't understand poker all that much.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

you've obviously never played with really good poker players. I suggest you go to Las Vegas and sit down at a minimum 5/10 table and discover for yourself whether there's actually skill or not from your perspective.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Oh i know there is some skill, and knowing how to lie even with your body language is a form of art, but it doesn't go that deep and movies don't benefit from scenes with the game

by Anonymous 2 days ago

The skill is understanding the odds and balancing that knowledge with learning to spot others bluffing, and learning to bluff yourself. If there were no skill there would be no one who wins more than anyone else the same way we don't have competitive coin tossing. Some people win more than others. Can't do that in a pure chance game.

by Powerful-Service 2 days ago

it has way more than bluffing involved. Honestly, based on your perspective and the way you're talking, I bet you wouldn't ever come away from the table with more money than you bought in with at a real table, you would get eaten alive

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Texas Holdem has a stupid skill ceiling. Can someone get really lucky and defy odds? Yes. When you watch a tournament you're watching a table of people reading each other and doing math. It's a game that is almost entirely reading human beings.

by Gus75 2 days ago

And our best technology for lying detection (which actually take into account internal factors which as a human you won't spot) can be fooled by special ops so at one point you're really just gambling. As for the math, yes there is, but it's not rocket science

by Anonymous 2 days ago

If you watch it at the highest tournaments it's simply just not gambling. You're pretending like it's a coin toss. You've either not played against a really good person, or watched enough to know what you're talking about. I would lose to my friends every time, and it was because they bought lessons from a poker god.

by Gus75 2 days ago

I agree that it is not that exciting to watch. And I really don't play it either. But poker is not a lucky based Game. There is lucky involved in the Game. But it is a Game about managing that luck and working with Hidden information. There wouldn't be people winning tournaments múltiple times of it was a lucky based Game.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I agree with that, but it doesn't change the fact that it's way too overhyped

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I agree with that, but it doesn't change the fact that it's overhyped asf

by Anonymous 2 days ago

If you refer to bets as "bids" you probably don't know the skill aspect of poker.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Tons of skill. Poker tournaments will run you through the ringer mentally.

by Immediate-Aerie4783 2 days ago

Of course there is some luck in any given hand, even any given tournament. But over time, luck evens out, and you'll find the players who are most successful have a comprehensive understanding of the math AND a good ability to read people, as well as exploiting particular spots. People who win at poker consistently aren't just extra lucky, they're better players.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

There's a ton of skill involved - poker players though? Some of the biggest narcissistic douche bags that walk this planet. There's no better feeling than taking their money on a hand that they deemed unplayable.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Enjoyment of poker isn't about skill. It's about people.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Tell us you don't know math without telling us. Reading people comes after you understand the math behind the game and how to calculate odds.

by Mental-Public-9494 2 days ago