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This is a study fueled by the traditional controversy that Poker is a game of skill and not of luck. A small university in Ohio, United States, conducted a scientific study whose results leave no great doubt.
Michael DeDonno, a candidate for a PhD in Psychology from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, conducted two studies that are summarized in this article, co-authored with Dr. Douglas Detterman of the same university, and concluded that all poker players they knew more than the average citizen does not know. According to DeDonno, this article is the empirical evidence that Poker is a game of skill, not luck.
In the first study, DeDonno chose 40 students with little or no knowledge of Poker and had to play 200 hands between them and the software of Wilson Turbo Texas Hold'em. Half of the students were informed of Poker's basic strategies, including initial hand selection and the logic of the pros to play only 15% of the hands. The other half only received information about the history of the game, but without any statistical or analytical data.
At the end of the experiment, both researchers concluded that students who had received strategy lessons performed better than the other half.
To confirm the finding, DeDonno and Detterman repeated the same experiment, but the number of hands played increased to 700. The conclusion was that all students (both groups) improved their results thanks to prior practice but those who had lessons strategies that outweighed decision makers without support.
In DeDonno's words, "If winning was pure luck, then the strategies would not have created differences between the two groups."
The researcher is convinced that the results of the study have application beyond the tables of Poker. He believes that theory can be applied to help people deal with real-life situations because they claim that it has implications for decision-making and risk management.
