you guys are all missing something: the money factor. This is why none of these games will mirror startuping adequatly. Poker, with its structural luck factor

you guys are all missing something: the money factor. This is why none of these games will mirror startuping adequatly. Poker, with its structural luck factor and money factor is by far the closest match. I think the variant that best mirrors it is tournament poker, MTTs especially. If you look at PNL graphs from MTT players, you will see they mirror startup PNL very well.