Is poker a game of chance?

Interesting blog post here about Poker (Skill vs Chance):
http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2007/05/03/poker-skill-vs-chance/

The most interesting part is the summation at the bottom:

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The gist is this: forget about winning at poker, and think for a moment about losing. Is it possible to intentionally lose a poker game?

The answer is yes, of course. Is it possible, meanwhile, to intentionally lose a game like Baccarat or roulette or craps?

No, it’s not — which means that you have no control over the outcome, which means that they are entirely games of chance. And which means, in Duke’s argument, that poker, therefore, is not.

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Using the same very simple argument you can argue that trading is not a game of chance but that it's a skill.

The often debated subject "is trading gambling?" would be better phrased as "is trading a game of skill or chance?" - using the above logic we would state that trading is a game of skill and certain casino games were games of chance.