Is poker "gambling"?

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gambling or not.my advice not play the razz game.i hate it :d

hahaha awww i like razz when im just bored and want to play cards for fun.

is there any place where I can try out razz on play money?

Why won't this thread die?
Anyone up for beating a dead horse?......oh wait, isn't that what we're doing.
Seriously though, gambling is an addiction and there are many players who just play poker for recreation and can go without it for long periods of time.

Poker is and isn't gambling, depending on who you talk to, there are several pros that make a comfortable living playing poker and those are the ones who play to make money, some players play to make a little extra income and then there are the gambling types who go through great lengths to chase after thier losses and those are the types you can consider gamblers.

I will come to beat this horse more when I look back in here at another time.

I guess you could say it could be considered gambling since you don't always have control of the outcome. But what is the difference in buying in to a local golf tournament for $10 and not knowing if your gonna win and buying in to a poker tournament for the same amount. NO difference in my opinon. and also if you were to win the main event for 9 million dollars and helped fund your local church with the money to build a new building i'm sure they wouldn't mind.

I think they stem from greek mythology.

I'm fairly sure about the mythology part anyway.

Pot odds is best explained with a cion toss. Let's see if you can fallow.

There is a 50% win chance. If a player gets 2:1 odds and plays 100 times how much will that player win on an average? OK, let's say the player is unlucky and loses 60%. At a dallor each toss, this player loses $60, but wins $80. This is clearly not gambling.

If a weak player sits with sharks, that is gambling. Rocks have a long chance to win against me. I'll see that they are only waiting for strong hands and I'll take every pot the rocks do not want by bertting into them, and let the rocks have every pot they want. Since all players miss more flops than they hit, I'll just bleed the rocks dry. Loose and crazy player, I'll just play tight and trap them. There is a way to beat every poker style, hence change gears or playing style often.

Besides, every year it's the same five guys making it to the final table of the World Series of Poker. Are they the luckest guys in the world? Winning the main event twice in a row, is like winning the lottery twice in a row, if it was luck. However, there are players (plural) who have won the WSOP main event twice in a row - two years back to back. Does that sound like luck? Only a fool thinks poker is a game of chance. Tell that to your self rigious friends.



Poker is a game of skill, and only the losers call it chance. Fact, there are profession players. How can that be if it's gambling.

Pretty sure it is for this guy.... lol (but how can it be... it's 'all rigged' anyways!)