Is it not a tricky question is it?
The question whether poker's performance is due to skill or just to luck has been a subject of intense and controversy debate.
Michael DeDonno, a doctoral student from Case Western Reserve University, has decided to run studies that challenge the theory of luck over skill in poker.
The question whether poker's performance is due to skill or just to luck has been a subject of intense and controversy debate.
Michael DeDonno, a doctoral student from Case Western Reserve University, has decided to run studies that challenge the theory of luck over skill in poker.
- In the first study, DeDonno had 41 college students play eight games, totaling 200 hands of Texas Hold'em one of the most wildely played form of poker.
Half of the students in the first group were given charts that ranked the two-card combinations from best to the worst and also learned that professional poker players typically play about 15 percent of the hands dealt them. The other group was given background on the history of poker with no strategies.
It appears that student given some strategies to make decision did better than those whithout any strategie background.
"If it had been pure luck in winning, then the strategies would not have made a difference for the two groups," said DeDonno.
It appears that student given some strategies to make decision did better than those whithout any strategie background.
"If it had been pure luck in winning, then the strategies would not have made a difference for the two groups," said DeDonno.
- In the second study to statistically verify the results from the first study, he conducted a second study, but had students play 720 hands.
Again the group was divided into those provided with strategies and those with just a history of playing poker. While all students improved their playing with practice over the large number of hands, the group given strategies continued to do better than those without the added information.
“This article provides empirical evidence that it is skill and not luck,” concluded DeDonno from his two studies.
Such a study about skill-luck issue is surpringly one of the first I've been heard.
The good thing is such report might play a great role in the poker community to be proved the real nature of the game isn't about luck but skill. However, for DeDonno's findings to be effective and to show there is no overlap between poker and gambling though, it must not be overlooked by severe and very restricted U.S. jurisdiction (along some european court) once again.
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“This article provides empirical evidence that it is skill and not luck,” concluded DeDonno from his two studies.
Such a study about skill-luck issue is surpringly one of the first I've been heard.
The good thing is such report might play a great role in the poker community to be proved the real nature of the game isn't about luck but skill. However, for DeDonno's findings to be effective and to show there is no overlap between poker and gambling though, it must not be overlooked by severe and very restricted U.S. jurisdiction (along some european court) once again.
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