"Poker is a game of chance"

[pkour]

"Poker is 90% luck"

what's your reply to that?

[Autocratic]

"That is not true."

[AngryEgyptian]

my 10% goes 160 mph

[scfgyvg]

I agree. I have much better outcomes when my mojo is working and the stars are aligned in my favor. Forget are that book learning strategy crap. Just find a good two-headed doctor to to cast a spell on your opponents.

[Blowup Doll]

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"Poker is 90% luck"

what's your reply to that?

[/ QUOTE ]

So how much did you lose?

[pkour]

i meant what do you say to convince people that poker is 99% skill in the long run?

[MexKrax]

I think it's closer to 84.653% luck.

[Buckmulligan]

I always give the coin flip analogy;

I say that we are flipping a coin and when it lands heads we get 52 cents and when it lands tails they get 48 cents. Therefore, the series of coin tosses is random but people understand that in the long run the tosses are the same but we win more money when the toss favors us.

[scfgyvg]

Same thing. Why do you want to convince them otherwise. Just smile and take their money. Let them believe its luck.

[thing85]

pktour,

You can't assign percentages to luck or skill. It's arbitrary. To someone who says "it's 90% luck" or "it's 99% skill", I just say, "you don't know what the hell you're talking about."