Luck or Skill: Which is More Important?

RidersFan · Mar 12, 2017

I think they are equally important. If you put too much emphasis on skill when your running bad you get to down on yourself or tilted and start playing bad and extend the downswing. If you realize that luck does play an important part I find it's easier to ride out a downswing knowing shit happens

Clint Dohrman · Mar 12, 2017

u have deff have to have luck to win a tourney but cash games is all about skill.

Ly4nik · May 24, 2017

Luck 60% skill 40%

Amanda A · May 24, 2017

In the long run skill, in the short run luck. If you are heads up with someone at the end of a tourney and they have all the luck there's not much you can do about it.

No1eJoker · May 27, 2017

Luck, skill and patience..

John Bor · May 27, 2017

This is a rather controversial issue
I think if people rely on luck it could lose its entire capital. But if luck will be helped then this person become very rich
In poker there are so many people that believe only in luck
. They often hope that luck will help them win. But this is not true
I think that skills are more important. Therefore, everyone should learn and try to gain more and more experience

vvalente · May 27, 2017

Skill, right. Luck will help you one time or another, but only the ability will keep you in the long run.

SlimHeperpokerstars · May 29, 2017

teepack said:
Check out my latest blog on the link below and let me know if you think luck or skill is more important for success in tournament poker.

Skill is the base of each player. I would compare it to the diamond that I just got from the river) Luck is also a diamond, only the one to which the hand of the master, who limited it, touched! Without a foundation (skills) you can not make faces, and without faces your diamond will not be full, it will not be what it can be, it can not shine and sparkle, letting sunlight through! Luck and skill things are inseparable, I think this one whole!

karkachi · May 29, 2017

I would say that 90% is skill and the rest is lucky.

Jazeapokergod · May 29, 2017

NLHE is 50% luck, 50% skill. Playing in tournaments it's more like 70% skill in my view. I play alot of SNG'S online, and I see the same names over and over getting there. Especially at microstakes, if you're consistently outlasting dons at that level, it's not just luck.

Alex Melnik · May 29, 2017

Skill and patience. Well, where to without luck)

EvE2K · May 29, 2017

You need skill in the game to understand how to win in poker. Also you need a luck, because sometimes you made a right moves but still can,t win. If you will have this 2 things you will be successful in poker.

Ranish625 · May 29, 2017

teepack said:
Check out my latest blog on the link below and let me know if you think luck or skill is more important for success in tournament poker.

The ability to play comes from experience, and if you are lucky then you are a lucky man

orchidra · May 29, 2017

Luck is very important, but to be a successful player over the longer term, skill is essential.

I like this quote
"Poker is a combination of luck and skill. People think mastering the skill part is hard, but they’re wrong. The trick to poker is mastering the luck." - Jesse May

thaipang · May 30, 2017

Luck does not exist. It's all math.The problem is that mathematics inclines towards you

John Bor · May 30, 2017

If you want know answer on that question.
then read that article
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TheLegend27 · May 30, 2017

I'd rather be lucky than have skill any day. Any Poker Player worth their salt can agree with that statement.

That being said, luck runs out eventually.

John Bor · May 30, 2017

When I started playing, I also thought about it
because it is quite an important issue

Antulio francis · May 30, 2017

This question makes me kind of strange I think poker is a game of knowledge and not 1% of luck poker comes down to knowledge and dedication to luck and factor that you play bad without thinking if you stop to think poker has a logic as Value cards played in any position has the advantage of being the best range of cards and other cards type 1098765432 are played in a bad situation or where you have a percentage of hit based on a pot created there yes it can be profitable to wrap up in this situation more if You play a hand 56off against AK if you hit your hand in case 56 this does not mean that you got lucky or not you just hit your hand the deck is based on 4 suits for all the cards then you hit your cards It's not luck that's my thinking, gl at the tables.

Mcash2 · May 30, 2017

Hard-learned skill obviously. Luck is merely a short-term variance in life's long algorithm.

1k95 · May 30, 2017

Skill and skills of the game mean a lot in poker, luck is also very important. But, despite this, you still need to convince yourself that the skill will always prevail over success in the long game.

AKQ · May 30, 2017

SKILL.. not because lucks not a fäctor and that you can go card dead for long periods.Its because certain players always go deep and thats not luck

froggeedogs · May 31, 2017

skill or luck?

A lot of good comments here. Skill matters by far the most. If a player relies on luck, when that changes, he/she has nothing left and won't last.

mrflip09 · May 31, 2017

waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy more luck then skill......i wouldnt call it a skill knowing when to fold when u have nothing! just common sense! so hitting a 5% river is skill? its almost all luck from the cards u get preflop to every card on the board...u control none of it! if anything u can ask what's more, luck or having balls?

Dailon Arroyo Blandon · May 31, 2017

To be successful as a poker player you need to have many skills and establish a good strategy, however luck is always important as there is a percentage of chance in the game of poker.

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