[txttran]

I disagree on this. Casual poker players will just play his hand as he's not that experienced with reading people.

While you are right that there is no DFS analogy to 'playing the player,' advanced DFS players build complex models, hedge their bets, and write (or hire people to write) scripts that update their bets as their beliefs about that day's games changes. Different kinds of skills than poker, but not less skill.

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If OP meant to say that the average player plays poker with more skill than he plays DFS with, then I too disagree.

However, I think what he meant is that poker allows for more skill--it's a deeper game. I agree with that sentiment. Poker includes all of the things you mentioned, and more:

* Building complex models about the other player's strategy * Hedging bets in the form of pot-control, post-oak betting, bluff/fold situations * Scripting, of course. There's tons of scripting & mathematical work that can be done in both.

Then you've got bet sizing, psychology, bankroll management (in both), incomplete information, and the list goes on and on for some time.

Any given poker decision might weigh a thousand factors or more, in real-time, and that often happens several times per hand.