Re: closest game to poker, skill v. luck
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I'd say closest traditional game would be bridge, but there's this collectible card game called Magic: The Gathering which I think is pretty close to poker when looking at short time luck vs playing skill for any longer perioid of time.
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I've dumped about $500 on MTG online in the last 2 months, and I can tell you with a reasonable degree of confidence that superior players triumph more often in draft format tournaments than a superior poker player does at limit holdem, because I am a pretty unskilled MTG player and I think I lose more often than the fish do at my tables. In a sealed deck format there is no draft skill involved, so I (the horrible player) have a better shot against the sharks.
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