re: Help settle a debate about luck: Gaming tournaments vs Poker tournaments

There's no arguing that gaming and poker are both skill based but they are vastly different. Anybody can win a few hands of poker against the best players in the world. Poker is a game of making correct decisions consistently over a long period of time. Winning poker players can have periods of breaking even or losing just due to variance. If we are talking about FPS games, then the better player will win almost always. I'm not sure how someone can make the comparison. You could sit down and take a couple pots from someone in poker heads up but it doesn't prove anything but it's safe to say who the better FPS player is in a much smaller sample size.