One last try

[CraigJ]

Every process in life follows a distribution pattern known as a bell curve. It looks like a bell because most people fall in the middle but a few are on either end (left or right).

Even life itself falls into a bell curve. Unfortunately a few die at an early age (left) while a few fortuante get to live to be over a hundred (right). Most are in the middle and live to be roughly the same age.

Some people live in extreme poverty (left), others have more money than they will ever know what to do with (right). But most are in the middle. That is why middle class is the largest class.

Skill in poker falls into the bell curve. Every person in the world would fall into this category whether thay play poker or not. Most could care less about the game so they fall in the middle. Those who learn about the game, play and practice it, are going to be moving themselves to the right side of the curve. Ivy is on the far right because he is so skilled. Unfortunately if someone was born with a mental handicap they would have to be on the far left.

Now here we go, luck in poker will also distribute into a bell curve. And by luck we mean how well you fair against the percentages. For arguments sake for a 50/50 probability 51 would be considered lucky, 49 unlucky. Just like any other process in life it will distribute in a bell curve. A few will get more than their fair share of luck (beat the probabilites) while a few will get more than their fair share of bad luck.

TO SAY THAT FOR SOME REASON LUCK IN POKER DOESN'T FALL INTO THIS DISTRIBUTION AND WILL EVENTUALLY EQUAL OUT FOR EVERYONE IS LIKE SAYING LIFE WILL EVENTUALLY EQUAL OUT FOR EVERYONE. AND THAT IS REALLY GOING TO HAPPEN.

All I have been trying to say is Ivy is very much on the right in his poker skill. Where his luck falls we don't really know. He may be so far to the right that his luck is on the left and his skill just makes up for it. But if we can find the person who is just as far on the right as Ivy and whose luck (beating the percentages) is also the farthest on the right, then we have just found the most dominate poker player in the world.