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Re:Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capital... by nicoburns on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:24PM (#22425072)
It's still mostly luck (and who-has-the-most-social-capital-to-persuade-the-other-to-let-them-win) based though. There are lot's of much better board games out there.
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Re:Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capital... by doggydogs94 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:33PM (#22425168)
That’s like saying that poker is mostly luck.
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Re:Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capital... by rurp on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:00PM (#22428410)
Poker is mostly luck. Elite players sometimes lose for months at a time. It takes a LOT of hands before you can expect your real world results to converge to your EV results. It is certainly possible to win in the long term, but results from a single session are very loosely correlated with skill.
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Re:Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capital... by TimPC on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:40PM (#22425840)
Any individual session of poker is mostly luck. I say this as a winning poker player. The edges are very small and the variance is quite high. There is a reason it's so rare for the best players to make deep runs in the WSOP Main Event.
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