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Texas Holden poker mode a game that offers several ways and chances of winning on the other hand the same conditions to lose.
But what is in fact the game, Sports or Gambling, for many is considered a sport, still more for the new generations that play the game due to the new literatures of the books and for so many others a Game of Chance.
It is no secret to anyone that gambling began to be played in a casino, where gambling is routine. Today with the advancements in technology can be played even inside the house, just use the Internet and connect to any online poker site.
The greatest skill of the game consists in making simultaneous cash bets, ie betting on bets, in order to win a hand with great profit, to have the best or to force the opponent to give up.
There is also the concept of luck of the Game, for those who played and played and common to hear complaints I took a bad beat, and concepts are growing, one thing is certain almost everyone who played the game already lost with cards that has a high probability of victory as the AA, KK, QQ, AK, AQ, this occurs with everyone who has played and played poker, so we are facing a game of chance, because luck or bad luck conditions are inherent to the game.
The sporting side of the game also exists, it is when we play a tournament and we fight for some position, which in this case is the victory of the tournament, in this case there is a competition, a goal to be achieved.
Although there are the skills and techniques of the game that each one has in poker, it is a game where the loser is discontented and the winner gets big.
There are those who advocate, more in practice is a gambling yes, and is still played most of the times in the casino and the sites themselves have their casino games included in the site.
 
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It seems to me that poker is a game of chance when you just having fun and sports when the agony of losing sets in. I like the game of fun and not worrying about winning or losing. Sometimes you end up throwing it and the nerds set in. You wonder why your just having fun.
 
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I wouldn't say poker is sport because it is game of chance, as it is already mentioned in first post of this topic. However, poker being the game of chance doesn't mean that it is based on pure luck. There are more and less skillful players, but it doesn't make poker a sport.
 
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Indepente of the player level, the situations when you go all in with a good card as a pair of AA and another, call with a smaller pair on the hand wins, there was a chance event, this occurs with all players.
 
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Poker skill is relatively relative, any player has, does not depend on size, depends on the person, who has the condition to learn from their own mistake.
 
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Where we have to keep in mind when we think of poker skills, imagine when we have a pair of AA agents raise a 5 bet and the other player call all in and certainly agent will never fold with the pair of AA, then the player presents a card like 88 and soon on the turn he finds a three out of 88, and then there's the skill in poker.
These events occur in poker and this I put to show every player is equal depends a lot on the luck of the day on some occasion.
 
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it is a big dilemma if it is a sport or a game of chance for me it is in a different category and it would be like a mental game with something of chance Obviously any player has lost with a very powerful hand the question is that you must know how to read when you are lost and reduce your margin of loss with those superpowerful cards by the way I do not know any sport where the loser feels good, the loser will always have disappointment or rage
 
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I see it as a strategy game which has skill with a bit of luck all wrapped up inside it.
 
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Poker is a sport with elements of gambling.
Perhaps better to say, gambling.
Although it does not matter to me.
 
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poker is gambling but with some luck your hands hold up sometimes you can suck players in by having the best hand but you could possible get out drawn as well it happens it is a gamble in my eyes.
 
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Officially poker is not a sport,so it's gambling...
 
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Its gambling. And its good, because gambling is better than sport haha :D :)
 
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Poker is a gamble, people do not like to gamble, some win and some lose, if people have a strong addiction for gambling and they win good money, that means very well, but if the players lose a lot, then it's better not to play and do not lose money!
 
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Poker is not gambling, is a kind of race. Gambling needs too much luck. Of course luck is the lack of knowledge, which here are mathematics. The bigg difference is thet poker needs skills with psycology which is one factor and needs maths and luck. In gambling you only have the luck factor which can reduced with the study of maths.
 
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Admittedly, poker is very different from lottery, slot and roulette and other mode like blackjac. In poker you have to think, if you go into a hand, if you will bleance, if you will raise, so I presented a post called choices, and talked to a lot of people about it, why on some occasions you donate a winning hand and others the hand would be his fall.
The online game is still suspicious, but the best way to play and stay away from conflicts.
I think it's a game of chance and the sports model is in tournaments.
 
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Poker is paid by the player and never has an incentive from any company or government.
There are many literatures that defend poker as a sport, but I see everything with a lot of suspicion, even if a person comes and puts it in a book, poker is a game of chance, very few people will be interested in poker and in that the sites do not will attract new depositors.
You can believe in poker anyway you like, but in everything in life if you want to be great you should be suspicious and in poker mistrust is everything.
When you suspect a hand you can fold or bet until the end, whether you will win or lose depends, there were bets you won and others you lost.
 
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Poker is a GAME of skill, and NOT a sport, as "sport" is defined as a game involving physical activity/exertion.

We need to stop calling poker a sport because doing so only gives those who are opposed to the game another reason to put it, and its players, down.
 
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I fully agree, even up is a way to make people blame themselves for the misfortunes.
Poker is a game of chance where the risk of losing is the size of the risk of winning.
 
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Hi.
For me poker is a favorite hobby, gambling game.
Good luck.
 
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Me and a Federal District Court Judge in Brooklyn both think its a game of skill.
 
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Poker is not a sport, I'm sure of it.
 
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play money games are boring trophys are only cool while your alive your kids will throw them out when you die ......I PLAY POKER TO WIN MONEY, AND MAYBE SOME FAME WOULD BE COOL BUT KEEP THE TROPHY. I GUESS MAYBE ITS A MENTAL SPORT
 
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most sports are called sports because of there physical challenge accompanied by compettitive values poker is indeed a compettitive game but unless your an old ass decrepid player its in no means a sport
 
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luck will beat skill whenever it pleases so even the best poker player will lose to the worst by the gamble
 
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