Poker is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will

Ricky's Facebook status this morning reads

"Poker is...."

Those of us who invest much of our lives into this godforsaken game probably haven't taken too much time to think of what Poker is.

We load up clients and reg from lunchtime to night time, spending hour after hour trying to collect as many chips as possible betting, raising, folding, calling, bluffing, flushing, jamming, overbetting, floating, sucking out and trying to get people to put their chips in drawing dead with no miracle cards left in the deck.

We use every weapon available to us in order to make the best decisions possible to try and defeat every last opponent who decides to pit his skillset, cards and position against us.

The Prussian solidier and miltary theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote in the 1832 treatise 'On War'

"War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will."

So what is Poker to me?

Poker is war