Which gambling games are least affected by luck?

Question

If you happen to know the w/l odds with most skillfull play, that would be great.

Answer 1

The only games where skill dominates over luck are poker, team blackjack (now almost impossible to accomplish), sports betting, and horse racing.

In poker a very skilled player can win millions in a year.  They play the person, not the cards, and they can make a very good living doing it.

Team blackjack involves counting cards and then signaling another teammate to come over and bet heavy when the odds are right.  If you vary your bets as a single player you'll get booted pretty quick, but if it's a team effort you can stay under the radar.  This is how the MIT Blackjack Team made millions.  But new table procedures and enhanced security have made their MO almost impossible to pull off in a real casino.

Sports betting can be done with zero risk using arbitrage betting (google it), but it's time consuming and usually has a very low rate of return (often below 1%).  If done often enough and for high enough stakes it can be profitable.  Picking games to bet on straight up, though, is a very risky venture.

Finally there's horse racing.  Horse racing forums compile an ungodly amount of statistics, and I've seen players whose only living comes from the track.  They simply analyze the stats and place their bets accordingly.  I don't understand half of it, but I know for a fact that it can be done.

I don't have W/L odds, because the odds will vary depending on how skilled you really are.  If you learn to play poker well and go to a local casino your odds are good.  If you don't bother to learn and go play high stakes in Vegas you'll get crushed.

Answer 2

blackjack.

But poker and sportsbetting are more efficient

Answer 3

Sports Picks. Often its heavily researched. Does not rely on luck.

Answer 4

Gasino games that can be beat with skill is: Poker, Spostsbetting, Blackjack (not online) and in some cases Video Poker. You can find the house edge/casino odds for lots of casino games here: http://www.topcasinobonus.eu/html/housee...

Answer 5

The games most affected by skill over luck are the games that you can make decisions on prior to betting, or at least prior to most of the betting.

From luck to skill, I guess the the scale would be:

Lottery tickets

then Slots

then Roulette

then Craps ...

then Poker vs a dealer

then Blackjack ...

then Poker vs opponents

Sports betting is somewhere between Craps and Poker vs a dealer, because the handicappers are good enough to create lines that are near-coin flips.

I guess the least luck-involved/most skill-involved gambling would be betting on your own actions ("I bet I can hold my breath for 2 minutes!") but that's not really a gambling game.

Answer 6

poker. it is the only game in a casino where it is set up for you and other players to win. if you play a poker game where the dealer does not play. like texas hold em. 3 card and 4 card poker, and caribbean stud and games like that, where the dealer is playing, is set up for the casino to win. in texas hold em, the casio still makes money off the pot rake. but blackjack, and slot machines, and craps (craps is a HUGE moneymaker for the casino) and roulette, all those are set up to where the odds are not in your favor. about slot machines, they really are a rip off. say there are 20 machines in a row, all the same type. and the sign says "pays out 50 to 1" or "$10,000 prize hits every 24 hours" or something crazy like that. well, only 1 machine in that whole group of 20 machines has to do that for them to be able to advertise all that money. and as soon as it hits, then the machines are wired to change it to a different machine to pay out big. just trust me, don't play slots. i used to cocktail in a very nice casino. when people would say "what machine pays out the most?" i would say "the ATM".

Answer 7

Poker has some luck but still the player makes the final decision  which determines the outcome

Answer 8

In poker to me, Omaha tends to favour skill over luck more than Holdem. However, that's debatable, and not very feasible to test.

Answer 9

russian roulette. . .