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Skill vs Luck

One of IFP’s central goals is to educate government decision-makers throughout the world, as well as the general public, that poker is a game of strategic skill rather than mere luck - and so that it should be detached from the punitive legislation enacted for gambling. To this end, IFP aims to compile here in its Library a definitive collection of academic studies demonstrating the dominant role played by skill in the outcome of poker hands and games. Those studies gathered so far can be accessed below.

Statistical Analysis of Texas Hold'em

Hope & McCulloch. The link below links directly to a PDF hosted on the Cigital website (http://www.cigital.com/resources/gaming/poker/100M-Hand-AnalysisReport.pdf).

100M-Hand-AnalysisReport.pdf

Measuring Skill in More-Person Games with Applications to Poker

CentER Discussion Paper - December 2008 No. 2008-106 By Ruud Hendrickx, Peter Borm, Ben van der Genugten, Pim Hilbers Original Source - http://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=90312

MEASURING SKILL IN MORE-PERSON GAMES WITH.pdf

Poker, Chance & Skill

by Noga Alon The question if poker is a game of skill or a game of chance received a considerable amount of attention mainly because of its potential legal implications. The link below links directly to an external PDF (http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~nogaa/PDFS/skill4.pdf)

skill4.pdf