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A comment on Beyond Chance? The Persistence of Performance in Online Poker.

Re:Beyond Chance? The Persistence of Performance in Online P... by slg on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @02:11PM (#9342677)
Isn't the easiest way to identify a game of chance versus a game of skill is whether a player can intentionally lose? If you can prove a player can be bad, it should be self evident that a player can be good.
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Re:Beyond Chance? The Persistence of Performance in Online P... by Terr_ on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @02:25PM (#9342764)
A nice approach, but it still depends on some value-judgments about what constitutes "intentionally losing".

For example, imagine any game of pure chance, with zero decision-making needed from the player. Then add just one kind of decision: The ability to concede or forfeit a round.

On a practical level, we can see it's still a game of pure chance, but at the same time a player can play to lose... it's not a very interesting kind of loss.

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