Success in poker is all about luck, according to researchers at the University of Bremen, Germany:
Is Poker a Game of Skill or Chance? A Quasi-Experimental Study.
I'm not a gambling man, but I'll bet this is going to be a controversial study.
The authors recruited 300 poker players - half were defined as 'experts' and the rest were 'average'. Players sat at tables of 6, with 3 experts and 3 average per table, and played 60 hands of Texas Hold 'em. On some tables, there was a fixed limit, on others, no limit. The stakes were fairly small, with each player having just 10 euros to start with, but there were also prizes of up to 500 euros (over $600) for the overall winner.
The trick was that the deals were fixed, with some players getting better cards than others. This was to allow the researchers to measure the ...
