Poker is a combination of luck and skill.
People think mastering the skill part is hard, but they re wrong. The trick to poker is mastering the luck. Poker is a tremendously complex game of strategy, patience, tactics, people reading, gear shifting, memory, acting, money management, awareness, aggression, and mathematics. For all but the most naturally gifted players, mastering most skill elements takes years of study, practice, and experience, and the even the very best players continue to add new or refined weapons to their arsenals long after they have achieved considerable success. Nonetheless, this long and arduous task IS easy, for most people, compared to the relative difficulty of handling the luck element.