Completely agreed on playing the player versus playing the hand.
But totally disagreed on this: "skill will always beat luck."
This is what we say to ourselves, and this is what they teach us in school.
But real life says the contrary. Luck always beats skill and no you dont wont me to tell the stories because you know them. Like last years million dollar tournement here picked up by a guy who played Texas holdem twice. One on the satellite and one on the tournement. and yes this is true he is a guy I know.
So anyways generally yes in a fair ideal world, but we are far from that. You have the lucky ones who will always see the A with big slick and you have those that never see it, and everybody else in the middle.