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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsStudy Shows Poker a Game of Skill
By Ed Brayton
Science Daily reports on a study out of Case Western Reserve University that shows that poker truly is a game of skill rather than being entirely based on luck. Every poker player already knew that, of course, but it's nice to have data to back it up. The study took students with no experience playing poker and split them into two groups. One group was given a chart showing the odds of each two-card starting hand winning, while the other group was given only information about the history of poker. The first group, unsurprisingly, did significantly better.
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