Is poker a game of luck or skill?

[anhvanlala13]

I always feel like I'm unlucky. In a strong hand, I always lose 7/10 even though my opponent only has 4-5 cards left

 

[Flower2211]

These two factors come together, at the initial and intermediate levels, I think they are approximately equal, and at the upper-intermediate and high levels they outweigh skills.

 

[SL-247]

Poker is a game of luck of skill.

 

[dannystanks]

Poker is gambling with luck and skill. You can be a good player but still loose badly to a worse player. That’s why I love no limit and hate it all at the same time.

 

[Mr_Cloud]

I couldn't agree, it's deffo about luck and skill. You can be as skilled as you want, but if poker God decides no decent flops offer you or you pocket pairs are gonna fail everytime.

 

[Gallarado777]

skill is more valuable in poker than luck, but you can't win poker without luck, so there should be two features in one person. If you're a good poker player and you have luck, you'll win and this will happen more often than just a strong poker player without luck so try to be a strong poker player and may luck always be with us

 

[Arthurinacio17a]

MORE SKILL THAN LUCK

 

[Wega85]

knowledge skill and boat load of luck

 

[ChemfromUKR]

Skill VS Luck? In poker

 

[Lucho.riv9]

Of course skill is more important, maybe you can win some with luck, but in a million hands the luck doesn't exist. Anyway if 2 players has the same level then the luck could be differential.

 

[NightStalker]

80% skill
20% luck

 

[G0930]

It's a game of skill which also involves luck

 

[Dzill_230]

Hello. I don't think it's right to delineate these factors in a percentage ratio, but due to how variance affects me, I'm starting to believe in "this theory...". The element of luck cannot be completely excluded, but knowledge and experience (skill) prevail. Yes, perhaps it's 80% skill and 20% luck.

 

[Clease]

Skill is much more important. But sometimes you need a little bit of luck

 

[luk0123]

It's provem that poker is a game of skills but there us still element of Łuck in it.

 

[Veralt]

I would say more skill than luck. A very skilled person usually obtains good results on average.
I feel that the problem comes when there are several people with a similar level, then luck takes precedence. At least that's how I see it 😶

 

[German629]

Hi, Everyone! Personally for Me Poker is interesting intellectual Game of Skill and Luck at the same time! Similar fifty-fifty...

 

[jazux48]

These two traits are interrelated, they go together)

 

[kabokinha]

sometimes luck helps, but in the long run skillful people are profitable

 

[Peteski84]

I would class it as a mix of both, skil matters not if you don't have any luck.

 

[COMIRRR]

I would like it to be luck, but it is not, the game would be too easy if we went by luck! I think it is the ability to make a correct decision, mathematical calculation.

 

[HistrionCriollo]

Poker requires more skill and strategy than luck, but luck will always be there. We must keep in mind that you will want to play many hands, both to fold or to be aggressive, how you will manage to come out victorious is what you must work on as a strategist. I could be totally wrong, I'm still learning.

 

[jproy444]

You need skills that's for sure. But you need luck also. If you can't get paid with some of your big hands and you can't get the other to fold with tour bluff, it's impossible to win

 

[sincos]

If you make money from poker, then we are talking about long distances. At long distances, only skill matters...

 

[0546474]

I think it doesn’t depend on the game, but on the player himself; if a player plays hoping for luck, then for him it’s a game of luck!!!