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7/21/2025, 11:41:51 AM
>>96143765
>I'm not saying it's a skill based game. I'm saying without the public facing cards, it's not a very fun or engaging game
Clearly people in the past disagreed with you.
Actually, a lot of historical card games were completely random, with the only skill involved being the betting meta-game...or there being no skill at all. For example, baccarat was the game of choice for the wealthy for several decades in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
The idea that gambling games should depend on skill basically at all dates from about the 1950s with blackjack when some mathematicians wrote a paper on it as part of a broader investigation of statistical analysis and the new field of Game Theory.
As the other poster said, Texas Hold 'Em only became popular a couple decades ago (taking over from Five Card Draw), and the extent to which it requires skill was massively exaggerated to hype it as a spectator sport.
>I'm not saying it's a skill based game. I'm saying without the public facing cards, it's not a very fun or engaging game
Clearly people in the past disagreed with you.
Actually, a lot of historical card games were completely random, with the only skill involved being the betting meta-game...or there being no skill at all. For example, baccarat was the game of choice for the wealthy for several decades in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
The idea that gambling games should depend on skill basically at all dates from about the 1950s with blackjack when some mathematicians wrote a paper on it as part of a broader investigation of statistical analysis and the new field of Game Theory.
As the other poster said, Texas Hold 'Em only became popular a couple decades ago (taking over from Five Card Draw), and the extent to which it requires skill was massively exaggerated to hype it as a spectator sport.
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