[gte910h]

>Mathematically. Incontrovertibly.

Incorrect. In a game with no house, this may be true, but in a a game raking, it depends a lot on what sort of players sit down against you.

So if you want to put 'table selection' under skill, yes, I'll grant your point, but without judicious picking and choosing in that, poker can very much be a losing game just like most other casino games.

Look at the O8 games in Tunica for instance. Dead dead and deader because no one except people on oxygen tanks ever plays them.

It takes a lot of confluence of factors to beat the house drain on games (I'm talking in person games, not online games; online games are "merely" illegal, but otherwise you'll likely be fine in the longterm).