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WHY..... Can't this man go away already!!
Billionaire casino boss Sheldon Adelson, who has long tried to get the federal government to ban online poker out of moralism,
took another swipe at the card game in a recent interview with Yahoo Finance.
The 83-year-old said “poker is gambling” and challenged the widely-held notion that it is predominantly a game of skill.
He said that skill does play a role, but he apparently sees that as negligible.
“They say poker is a game of skill,” Adelson said. “I don’t know how skill can apply to somebody shuffling a deck of cards and randomly giving them out to you.
You don’t have any control over it. Can somebody bluff and can somebody place bets better than somebody else?
Yes. But that doesn’t make poker a game of skill.”
Many will disagree with what Adelson said, as the quality of cards dealt breaks even over a large enough sample size.
Poker is a game to be looked at in the long-run, not just a single session.
If you look at hands one by one, it can be easy to see poker as fundamentally a game of luck.
Adelson gave those comments after being asked a question about daily fantasy sports contests and state gambling laws.
Adelson also believes DFS is gambling.
SOURCE- FULL STORY
Billionaire casino boss Sheldon Adelson, who has long tried to get the federal government to ban online poker out of moralism,
took another swipe at the card game in a recent interview with Yahoo Finance.
The 83-year-old said “poker is gambling” and challenged the widely-held notion that it is predominantly a game of skill.
He said that skill does play a role, but he apparently sees that as negligible.
“They say poker is a game of skill,” Adelson said. “I don’t know how skill can apply to somebody shuffling a deck of cards and randomly giving them out to you.
You don’t have any control over it. Can somebody bluff and can somebody place bets better than somebody else?
Yes. But that doesn’t make poker a game of skill.”
Many will disagree with what Adelson said, as the quality of cards dealt breaks even over a large enough sample size.
Poker is a game to be looked at in the long-run, not just a single session.
If you look at hands one by one, it can be easy to see poker as fundamentally a game of luck.
Adelson gave those comments after being asked a question about daily fantasy sports contests and state gambling laws.
Adelson also believes DFS is gambling.
SOURCE- FULL STORY
