Poker is a game of chance. This has been the unconsidered opinion of many legal experts for more than 100 years. A blanket judgment such as this, however, neither complies with high court decisions regarding the distinction between games of chance and games of skill, nor does it apply to the poker variant Texas Hold’em, which at present is the most popular form of poker. Proof for this, which had so far been missing, has now been provided in a first large field study in Germany...