Skill or Luck?
When it comes to poker, the one debate that never ends is whether poker is a game of skill or luck. Here are couple of the “truisms” you will hear over and over in this conversation.
“On any one hand luck might win but over the long run skill will always prevail.”
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“If it’s a game of luck, why do the same faces keep showing up at the final table?”
“Fifty percent of poker is Luck and fifty percent is Skill.”
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“You gotta to play good to get lucky.”
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“Ten percent of poker is Luck and ninety percent is Skill.”
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“That lucky SOB always hits his river card.”
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“Every draw has a certain percentage to hit and over the long term it will hit exactly that often.”
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“The odds will even out the luck over time.”
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The key to remember is that this particular argument will never end. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes the skillful player wins. But good poker players know that better players, more skillful players win way more than they lose but even they get drawn out on. Never forget that someone drawing to a two-outer actually does have two cards to win. Some might consider that luck.
-This is Beginner’s Poker Blog Post #35
