Proof that poker is a skill-game

December 11th, 2009

This is really interesting!
Drawpoker has been proven to have a skill value of 0,45 in Dutch study!
So what on earth does that mean?
It has been analysed statistically by going through loads of hands. A simplified version of Drawpoker was calculated according to a certain formula to be on the level 0,45. This can be compared with Blackjack on level 0,06.
The needed level to be considered a skillgame according to the Dutch court was 0,20, so no problem for Drawpoker. And they consider Texas Hold’em to be on a higher level.
This is a recap of an article i Aftonbladet (sorry - in Swedish), I have not been able to find the study unfortunately. Please share if you find it.

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One Response to “Proof that poker is a skill-game”

  1. Tuve Says:
    March 5th, 2010 at 10:31 am

    Here is the dutch article: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1319271

    I cant find the PDF of the swedish article, but here is another more recent article by the same authors: http://bada.hb.se/bitstream/2320/5812/1/DMIN09_Poker.pdf

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