How much of Poker is luck?
 

For example a world class player is playing against an 'average' player, what is the maximum %age rake he could beat. Personally I don't think the luck factor is high, over 90% so it would be impossible to beat a 10% rake?

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It's all luck.

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Lol, well if it's all luck you could with buying a wheelbarrow full!! [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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depends, if your an idiot, then it's 100% luck

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How much poker you play will determine how much luck is involved.

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69

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50/50

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Back in the day, and I stress that this was before online poker, we did a study on this. The result of that study determined that poker was 27% luck and the rest was skill.

But with the onset of online poker and the coming of age of the donkey in 2005, I would assume that number is slightly higher today.

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you make your own luck, obv

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The institute for psychology in gambling did a study in 1983 and determined that success in poker is based on the following weightings:

31%: the hands you are dealt

12%: your aggression at the table

8%: your highest level of education

17%: the environment you were raised in

6%: your exercise regimen

14%: your average daily intake of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose

7%: geographic distance to closest server hub

12%: symmetry of facial features

41%: luck

http://www.gamblingpsygroup.org/inde...tios&num=3

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The institute for psychology in gambling did a study in 1983 and determined that success in poker is based on the following weightings:

31%: the hands you are dealt

12%: your aggression at the table

8%: your highest level of education

17%: the environment you were raised in

6%: your exercise regimen

14%: your average daily intake of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose

7%: geographic distance to closest server hub

12%: symmetry of facial features

41%: luck

http://www.gamblingpsygroup.org/inde...tios&num=3

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I was REALLY hoping that was a rickroll [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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I was REALLY hoping that was a rickroll [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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Of course not. Because if it were my stupid joke might actually have a chance of being funny.

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how much of luck is poker? you ever think about that OP?

Re: How much of Poker is luck?
 

Over 100 hands: tons

Over 100 000 hands: not much

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"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

By Thomas Jefferson

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18.672%

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how much of luck is poker? you ever think about that OP?

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50/50

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All of them.

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how much of luck is poker? you ever think about that OP?

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Not since I quit drinking carpet cleaner, no.

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depends, if your an idiot, then it's 100% luck

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I'd say it would be a bit more than that.

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you make your own luck, obv

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You do if you work for Absolute.

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It's all luck.

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It's clear when the drugs kicked in, and wore off.

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It's all luck.

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It's clear when the drugs kicked in, and wore off.

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Luck drugs?

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It's all luck.

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It's clear when the drugs kicked in, and wore off.

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Luck drugs?



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blayhhvghsf jshuttlesworth just won a red vs black flop bet for $100 when I had black and folded two red cards, and the doorcard was black, and then running hearts unship

Re: How much of Poker is luck?
 

20% Math
30% Psychology
30% "Heart"
20% Luck

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84% of these type of stats are made up on the spot

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60% of the time it's luck every time

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Try pressing the buttons randomly, check your results, and report back here.

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Every hand you play your luck factor decreases. It never reaches 0, but continually approaches it.

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Every hand you play your luck factor decreases. It never reaches 0, but continually approaches it.

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I used to hate when people would tell me this... even though I knew it's mathematically true, I was just so pissed off that it didn't seem true for me. For something like 4-5 months, whenever I was in a large pot (2+ buyins in the middle) I won about 25% of the time despite being over a 75% favorite on average (yes I did the math). When I moved up in stakes it got even worse, and I eventually quit because of it.

Came back a while later, and now it's almost the opposite. If I feel like playing a smaller game, or anytime I'm up against a shortstacker, I'll lose to 3-outers all day long. But in big pots now I'm winning coinflip after coinflip, hitting 5 card straights on the board against AA... it's awesome when luck is not only failing to screw you over, but it's actually favoring you.

To answer the OP's question: Depends on how skilled your opponents are. If you're both good, luck is a huge factor. If you're both bad, luck is huge. If there's a real difference in skill then luck matters a whole lot less.

Also I've noticed the players who complain of the worst luck, are the ones who are good at poker but terrible with bankroll management. They put themselves into situations where their bad luck always costs the maximum amount of money.

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Over 100 hands: tons

Over 100 000 hands: not much

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But for certain people:

Over 1 600 000 hands: 100% luck.

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its all luck

pros are just the people who were born lucky.

SOL

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The institute for psychology in gambling did a study in 1983 and determined that success in poker is based on the following weightings:

10%: luck

20%: skill

15%: concentrated power of will

5%: pleasure

50%: pain

100%: reason to remember the name
http://www.gamblingpsygroup.org/index.php?page=success-ratios&amp;num=3

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fyp

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it's too bad fgators is banned, he could have made this thread epic

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it's too bad fgators is banned, he could have made this thread epic

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OP IS Fgators.