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That’s just luck.
by nkrisc 5y ago
That’s just luck.
- cortesoft 5y agoNo, because if you really suck, you can’t win at all. It is like poker, which is a combination of skill and luck.
- Karunamon 5y agoOkay, I can accept that. But poker is still considered gambling, and we wouldn't allow arcade owners to target poker games at children. Why should this be allowed?
- cortesoft 5y agoI 100% think this is a gambling game and should be outlawed in places gambling is illegal. I was only saying that there is skill involved. Gaming laws never classify gambling games as those that require zero skill. Otherwise, poker, blackjack, even craps wouldn't be gambling, because all bets do not have the same odds, and therefore skilled players do better than unskilled.
- chrismcb 5y agoPoker isn't necessarily considered gambling. It is one reason why some places, like California, have poker rooms.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Poker isn't necessarily considered gambling Yes it is. > It is one reason why some places, like California, have poker rooms. No, that's because some instances of gambling involving betting against other players are sometimes selectively regulated differently than betting against the house. Its the same reason some places, like, again, California, that prohibit casino gambling allow parimutuel betting on horse races.
- boring_twenties 5y agoCalifornia also has legal poker rooms.
- HarryHirsch 5y agoSkill when the machine decides to let you win, no chance when the machine doesn't want you to. It's not at all like poker and very much like the well-known shell game with a pea.
- cortesoft 5y agoIt is like poker.... you can play the correct 'skill' move and still lose the hand because of bad luck (losing in the river, for example)
- Caylio 5y agoThe machine can only "decide to let you win" if you have the skill to get close, otherwise no chance.
- mafuy 5y agoOne gives you a chance to win when you are skillful. If you are skillful enough, you will win eventually just by chance. The other may never pay out even if you are 100% accurate. This is a big difference.
- Caylio 5y agoYour "big" difference is useless and changes nothing to the topic at hand. Nkrisc claimed that no skill was required at all, only luck, which is clearly false. I was just pointing out this obvious fact. Nice strawman attempt though.
- nkrisc 5y agoIf the very last step of the process is that the machine decides if you won or not, it's not a game of skill. It takes a degree of skill and coordination to pull the lever on the slot machine, yet we don't call them a game of skill because of that. If you're 100% accurate and you still lose, it's a game of chance.
- Caylio 5y ago
- 542354234235 5y agoIt isn’t luck, because the game has a 0% chance of winning until X number of loses. That is like saying that getting heads on a coin toss is a game of luck, except they are actually using a double tails coin for 700 tosses. A game of luck or chance requires some chance that you could actually win on a given play.