Poker - Gambling or Game of Skill?

I forget where I heard it put something like this...

Play one hand of poker... it is a game of chance.
Play one hundred hands... it is a game of skill.

Anyone can beat anyone in one hand, but if you play for a while the better player is going to come out on top.

I've known men to bet on which lump of sugar will be the first to be visited by a fly.

Card players play cards. Gamblers, gamble.

I likes to play card games of all types poker one of the favorite ones

It's not necessarily gambling.
Firstly, you don't have to play for money and secondly, I usually associate gambling with 80%+ luck or chance.
Poker is majority skill. I've played poker for just over a year, and you do regularly get bad beats, but the pros can't be just good on luck. They must be good players too and if they are regularly winning, then it is obviously to do with skill.

I have always thought that anytime you make a bet for money you are gambling.

If you put a bet on a chess game, it is still gambling by my definition.

Good point ebrown. I'd be curious about your thoughts on this example:

There are people who get together at an area lake/river/etc. and each pays an 'entry fee' of say $50. The pot grows as more boats/fishermen enter the tournament. The fishermen then go out in their boats and catch fish for 8 hours or so. At a pre-determined time; the participants bring in their catch of the day (ie: 5-fish) and weigh them. At the end of the weigh-in; the boat with the most weight wins a large % of the pot, second highest weight wins a lesser % and so on. The organizer of the tournament also keeps a portion of the pot for administrative fees.

Is this considered gambling?

GAME OF SKILL NO DOUBT. i sometimes have fun switching styles after an hour or two of straight up tight-aggressive and literally raking in 2-3000 % profit in a few hours. but i only play 1-3-6 limit with 20$ buy in. LOL, i cant risk anymore at the moment.

the skill in the game is all about risk management, and player reading.
its almost like chess but you can hide your peices. if poker was a game of luck i would lose, but i get pretty good returns, and im consistent in my winnings no matter what style i am using.

i say skill, but you can be beaten with luck. sometimes.

Of course it gambling, but it's not nearly as risky as other forms (blackjack, lottery, etc).

I watch the WPT every week. If it wasn't a game of skill, then you wouldn't see the same faces regularly making progress. When you get down to the final two, then luck plays a bigger part. When there's 6 people at the table (and as viewers you can see all the cards) you get to see where the reads, the odds and the skill comes in.

That's not to say that it's not gambling. It obviously is. But it's not gambling on pure chance, such as something like roulette is.

In Horse Racing you have the jockey and you have the bettors.

In Poker these roles are combined.