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Originally Posted by luzipher
This is the key question, and the answer is definitively NO.
You can find a person that hit 60% of the times and another one that hit only 10%, but you can find that in a low sample of hands.
The more hands you take, the more close to the 35% everybody will be, and with enough hands is almost impossible to find a person close to 60% of hits.
That's why not.  |
I agree that over a great enough sample of hands the deviation from the norm (odds) will be less.
But i don't agree that luck wins over skill. I like it that your bud made such a beginning to his poker career, how many other lucky players were there at the final table/ tournament?.. I would say that there were more skilled players and I bet they took as much collectively as did the lucky players if not more.
Whilst the hand will/won't hit a percentage of times, this isn't the important part. How much you make when it hits and how much it looses when it doesn't is what matters.
Making bets above the expected value of the hand and more frequently than the odds suggest against your opponents hands is where you want to be. Thats winning poker and it puts LUCK to shame which is for those that wish to have their fate decided by something outside of themselves.