Is poker a game of chance or of skill?

Now that is a fraught one. It certainly involves a lot of chance, in that the cards are dealt to you at random, but there is also a lot of skill, in the way you handle those cards. The fact that...

To a degree there is chance and luck - if you get dealt good cards- that is chance and luck. However, there is a huge amount of skill in poker.

It's a game of skill. It requires learning and discipline. The people who play poker professionally for a living are not "more lucky" than anyone else. That they can decide to apply themselves to...

I just think its chance because you never know what cards you will get or loose.

Poker chips are your 'money' in a poker game. You use real money to buy poker chips, and then you use the chips to bet and call in the poker game. Once you are done playing, you go to the cashier...