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I mean, there must be a reason why players like Ivey, Durrrr, Seidel, Hellmuth and all the other players that has made millions and millions of $ playing poker. Or maybe that was just "luck". Has this already been discussed on the Pokercast?
Here is a very easy way to understand the luck/skill debate: Over 1 hand, poker is almost all luck; over 10 million hands it is almost all skill.
The Swedish government does not understand the true nature of poker, nor it seems the true nature of luck and skill. Would they say that golf is luck with an element of skill? Over the course of one shot there is a lot of luck involved in golf: wind conditions, freak bounces, unexpected noises disturbing a player's concentration. Over the course of hundreds of rounds of golf, the effect of luck becomes very very small compared to the skill element.