May
12
Luck plays a significant role in poker. Luck plays an insignificant role in poker, just a minute, does it or not? These two statements are not contradictory, largely because we haven’t specified the time frame. If we’re talking about relatively short, limited time frames, then luck is a huge element. However it is agreed amongst most top pros and seasoned amateurs is that it accounts for 80 to 85% of their outcomes in single sessions lasting less than five or six hours.
The truth is that poker has just the right amount of luck. It is one of the reasons why it has become so staggeringly popular. If luck played a lesser role the weak players would go broke too quickly; their winning sessions would become too infrequent and too far apart. They would lose interest and stop playing. So it is for you to decide how much luck plays in your game and it would seem the more you play the less luck plays a part. As Gary Player the world class golfer once said following a comment from a spectator that he had played a lucky bunker shot his reply, “the more I practice the luckier I become”!
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