Michael Paler
Legend
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Poker is really no different than speculating in the financial markets either, but they call that investing. Although luck plays a factor in both, they both also require a great deal of knowledge and strategy to be successful. Good luck is like icing on the cake for a profitable poker player.
Very, very well put, thank you.
So is too off base of me to think that poker is not gambling in the same sense that roulette is? I just do not see how you cannot compare those two if they are both gambling. By the same reasoning, if you consider investing gambling, then it too is like roulette, right? See what I mean? roulette = investing just makes no sense. I am not just being stubborn as many are saying that I am. I am trying to reason this out. There has to be a line someplace! A line that says "this is gambling" or "this is not gambling"; I simply think that investing and poker fall on the "not gambling" side of any line.
Just as well, chess and poker require a strategy. Once again, I am told I am wrong, that you cannot compare the two at all. I do not think they are precisely the same, yet as a general game and that strategy, they are awfully close in some respects. I would have used investing but I wanted to use a game of skill that is not gambling at all to see how they stack up against each other.
Thanks for your post Syko, for a while I was starting to think I was just nuts (but only a nanosecond). And If I am, I know you will set me straight.
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