Comment by gretch
2 days ago
The original claim is that people misconceive "that poker is about lying or that you need to lie to play poker"
The claim is not that deception can be used as a strategy at all. That btw is actually an uninteresting claim. In almost all games, you can lie to your opponent and probably gain some advantage.
If I were coaching a beginner poker player, I would honestly tell them to play statistically sound poker. That's a good way to make a lot of money.
Sure its a spectrum, but i think poker is fundamentally much more about deception than say monopoly is.
Only in the sense that poker is more about anything than Monopoly is!