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Quotations

"There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a "flush." It is enough to make one ashamed of the species".

Mark Twain.

Forsooth

Is Poker predominantly skill or luck?

Harvard ponders just what it takes to excel at poker
Wall Street Journal, May 3, 2007, A1
Neil King JR.

The article reports on a one day meeting in the Harvard Faculty Club of poker pros, game theoerists, statisticians, law students and gambling lobbyist to develop a strategy to show that poker is not predominetly a game of chance.

In the article we read
"The skill debate has been a preoccupation in poker circles since September, when Congress barred the use of credit cards for online wagers. Horse racing and stock trading were exempt, but otherwise the new law hit any 'game predominantly subject to chance' Included among such games was poker, which is increasingly played on Internet sites hosting players from all over the world."

This, of course, is not a new issue. Before going on we encourage readers to reae Mark Twains short story Science vs Luck published in October 1870 issue of The Galaxy.The Galaxy was one of America's leading monthly magazine but it did not last long and it's co-founder is better known for "Yes Virginia there is a Santa". It

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