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Re:Chess is just poker now by nordsieck on Monday September 19, 2022 @10:45AM (#32899033)
> While poker does have a significant element of chance in a given hand, it's no accident that top players consistently make more money over the long run.

That's a good point about the cash game format.

But tournament format often forces players into multiple all-ins over the course of the tournament. This leads to a much more luck based outcome.

Re:Chess is just poker now by confidantlake on Monday September 19, 2022 @11:15AM (#32899491)
But over the long run it is still about skill, just the variance is much higher. Any single tournament the result will be dominated by luck but over 10s or 100,000s of thousands skill will dominate. Even the all in situations, you need to know when to go all in and when to call an all in vs when to fold. Better players are going to have a much better handle on this.