Poker is skill. You can win or lose short term but long term winning players make money and losing players lose money. The casino takes a rake and isn't involved in the gambling at all.
That's not entirely true. Some casinos have their own players called shills sit at the card tables. The casino stakes them and take a cut of their winnings. A polymath genius friend of mine did it for a while.
They are called "Prop" players and they are used by the casino to get games started. They are paid a fixed rate hourly wage and keep their winnings. It's only done by bad players (barely winning, at best) because you are required to play at the table chosen by the card room and they force you to change tables as soon as the table fills up or gets good. For these reasons, it severely decreases your win rate and is not at all worth it for winning players because the hourly rates are terrible (~$10/hour). Anyone telling you they are a "Shill" player because they are good are running a massive bluff on you.
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u/turbotaco23 Jul 20 '26
Gambling is for chumps.
I enjoy poker, but I’d never play for real money. They say it’s skill but it’s still gambling.
Vegas wasn’t built on winners.