What do you think about luck in a poker game?

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What do you think about luck?

I think poker is a skill game, but I hate when people goes all in with 72o..

Luck is a controlled substance in Poker. 

Good players try and avoid it by consitantly getting their money in with the best hand or propper pot odds.

Bad players live by it.  Good luck keeps them in the game, and bad luck sends them home.  I just hope their bad luck hits before their good luck does.

When your a newbee like me then luck is a major factor in the game. I guess that the more experience you get the less you need to depend on luck.

Couldn't agree with you more Missed, a good player is able to eliminate a noob or fish from getting lucky MOST of the time by properly getting his money into the pot and preventing anyone from even having a chance of getting lucky..unless they are complete morons.

I love the people that go all-in! They are the best of the best! They make it really easy to calculate whether you are ahead or not, so you can easily count your pot odds and know whether it is worth it to go allin or not.

They are my little cash cows....

As for luck? Well I hate those 'unlucky days' but then on average I have just as many 'lucky days' so hey who cares?

Bart

Its when I hit a couple of those 'unlucky days' in a row.  Thats when I really hate it, but yes majority of the time I love the idiotic all-in guys who try and bluff into my big hand. Nothing beats it.

I love the people that go all-in! They are the best of the best! They make it really easy to calculate whether you are ahead or not, so you can easily count your pot odds and know whether it is worth it to go allin or not.

I was at a casino playint 1/2 NL and a guy set down.  He started moving all-in a lot.  I noticed too that if it was checked to him and he was last to act he'd move all-in.

Well I was praying to God to catch a hand to trap this clown with but somebody beat me to it.

The guy got up and left the table and nobody really said anything.  Well one of the regular players who was at the bathroom when the guy got busted returned.  His first words was, "Dammit, who busted the all-in guy, I wanted to be the one so bad."

The guy who busted him said, "I did, but I think it was a matter of time, the whole table was just waiting for it to happen."

I kind of thought it was funny that everybody else at the table noticed the same thing and was just hoping they could be the one to bust him.

Yeah totally... I find that it happens a lot more often online then in a land based casino. I mean within a day I will see at least 10 people that are all-in type people. With them it is just a matter of waiting but keeping them entertained. AS if you do not keep them entertained then they will stop going crazy with the all-ins. So in a way you have to pay them a little bit, so that they think their strat is working against you. Then you lay a trap and take it all back + profit.

I have never played poker at a real casino, only online and with friends. Is it hard to keep consentration up, don't people wander around the tables all the time?

Both

I like what Chris Ferguson said in an interview during this years WSOP. He was asked something to the effect as to how much tournament play was luck. He commented that in the short term in one tournament it is 90% luck but over many tournaments it becomes 90% skill.


Any one can sit at a SnG and just get cards after cards and win, but to do it day in and day out to make money takes skill.  Luck plays a role in the big tournaments also but to beat 1000+ entrants in a tournament....going to eventually take some skill.  Have you ever noticed that early leaders in any kind of big entry tournaments never make it to the end?

The other thing I forgot to add is that luck is only really important when you get yourself in a position where if you get lucky you are going to be able to capitalise on it!

Like if you hit your nut flush on the river you want to be in a perfect position to be able to make the maximum ammount of profit from it. You need to be a good player to make the luck work for you!

i don't belive luck bec we play to show our talent or for entertiement in this where is luck appered...
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