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by mod 3820 days ago
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.