closest game to poker, skill v. luck

Also, consider shuffle board.

LMAO

definitely backgammon, but i think there is more luck in backgammon, because if two players know what the'yre doing, the game usually come down to 1 decisive roll. in poker there are usually more than 1 crucial situation in a session

[Python49]

Uno

[soko]

Football, more specifically, the Redskins

[Duke]

Scrabble has a pretty high "entry level." At the point where I am, I could beat a guy like Trey with the right tiles. If you're talking about some random 1100 guy on ISC he has no chance, no matter how good the tiles are for him.

With poker you can be a retard and get really lucky, as you see in many TV tournaments. With scrabble you can compensate for "really bad" tiles by making plays with a vast vocabulary, but with poker you can't do anything but lose a hand. The extra bet that the pro makes in poker is far less of an edge than the 25 points the pro gets for garbage played well against the 6 the tard gets for not being able to hook ?EILNRT since he doesn't know the 2's.

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[AaronBrown]

You specify just in terms of skill versus luck, but there are also different kinds of skill (the only kinds of luck are good and bad). Baseball, backgammon and bridge require skill, but totally different from Poker skills.

I'd match Poker to Gin Rummy. You can get dealt Gin, like you can get dealt a Royal Flush; but in the long run the better player will collect the most money. The skills are similar, simple cardplay with complex psychology.

[ChuckyB]

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LOL, good part. I challenge anyone on this board to a set of games in stratego for up to $1K