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SUBMITTER: Potter van Loon RJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4346402 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Potter van Loon Rogier J D RJ van den Assem Martijn J MJ van Dolder Dennie D
PloS one 20150302 3
A major issue in the widespread controversy about the legality of poker and the appropriate taxation of winnings is whether poker should be considered a game of skill or a game of chance. To inform this debate we present an analysis into the role of skill in the performance of online poker players, using a large database with hundreds of millions of player-hand observations from real money ring games at three different stakes levels. We find that players whose earlier profitability was in the to ...[more]