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Joined: Nov '09
Location: Canada
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I consider it to be both, gambling and mind games. Anytime you are putting money down based on the cards that are out and the cards still to come, I don't think you can say that it isn't gamblling. However there is a huge potential to play mind games and increase your skill with time and effort due to the unknown factor of those hidden hole cards.
Joined: Jan '10
Location: Indonesia
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Posted by TheMachineQC: Of course it's both, how could poker not be a mind game? I've never seen a player who doesn't use his brain win big. It's possible of course but then when you get lucky taking too many risks, you either work on your game or lose all the profit you've just made by getting lucky...
In this case, mind games is like chess and bridge, doesn't mean use brain or not. It is just clarify .
