Is Poker Like the Lottery?

geokara · Mar 22, 2020

no, poker is not a lottery, poker is a game based on maths, pshyhology and knowledge!! sometimes in luck!

Qixxox · Mar 22, 2020

there's more and more people who plays "lottery" in poker table

, but it should not be like lottery!

Popescu97 · Mar 22, 2020

Sometimes poker it s lottery in all in ,in rest is strategy

gersom · Mar 22, 2020

It's not a lottery. It is strategy accompanied by luck!

Qixxox · Mar 22, 2020

Popesu97 said:
Sometimes poker it s lottery in all in ,in rest is strategy

all in's can very much be strategy!

JoeKampman · Mar 22, 2020

It is not "The Lottery". The odds of winning the lottery are astronomical studying those odds does not increase your chance of winning. Knowing the odds my hand has to win or not is how I am learning to make the correct decisions. Studying different spots and getting with others to get their take on ways to handle different predicaments is another way to get better. The same people win too often in poker for it to be a lottery.

podoloboq · Mar 22, 2020

On the contrary -i not just a lottery, but a lottery, which each of us creates!:aetsch:

igorneia · Mar 25, 2020

vittopio said:
This is called not a lottery and the relativity of hand strength (often the hands of monsters preflop and the flop might lose its power by the river)!

I have the worst luck in the lottery, I have a high amount of chips and I bet everything seems too bad I always lose with high cards in the pre flop for cards that I would never call a monstrous bet.

kingofnaps · Mar 25, 2020

It's entirely up to the player whether to make it like roulette (more appropriate than the lottery since at least sometimes you do win even if you're playing very poorly) or chess.

vittopio · Mar 25, 2020

igorneia said:
I have the worst luck in the lottery, I have a high amount of chips and I bet everything seems too bad I always lose with high cards in the pre flop for cards that I would never call a monstrous bet.

Try to play in poker rooms which offer insurance against pereezdov-- you will be very surprised how often they will not happen!

mountainfox · Mar 25, 2020

I had confidence that certain preflop hands would win, but I always end up losing. But, it's not the same as the lottery.

TheWize1 · Mar 25, 2020

Poker like Lottery ?

Definitely not

zorro222_zorro222 · Mar 25, 2020

no but some people play like it is....

tagece · Mar 25, 2020

No, in a lottery you have same chances to win then everyone. In poker you can improve your game and change this odds. Specially when your opponents think that poker is a lottery.

TheWize1 · Mar 25, 2020

TheWize1 · Mar 25, 2020

Brazil is no longer a democracy

Bolsonaro ?
Was he elected

chattydb4567 · Mar 25, 2020

Yup

JoeKampman said:
It is not "The Lottery". The odds of winning the lottery are astronomical studying those odds does not increase your chance of winning. Knowing the odds my hand has to win or not is how I am learning to make the correct decisions. Studying different spots and getting with others to get their take on ways to handle different predicaments is another way to get better. The same people win too often in poker for it to be a lottery.

Yup thing that sucks about poker u can play perfect and still lose doubt that the case in golf or any sport

pro100phil · Mar 26, 2020

When you go all-in, nothing depends on you anymore. So poker turns into a lottery

stylebender72 · Mar 26, 2020

if its a bad beat get over it and stop crying like a baby its math its variance you are going to lose a percentage of the time, and if you played bad and now you're blaming luck you're saying that poker is gambling or roulette or whatever you have no right to do that this game is literally more complicated than you can understand even if you have been playing for 10years because its an ever evolving mind game so stop saying bad things about the game that we love and keep these kind of words to yourself.

profa1989 · Mar 26, 2020

there is no way to win if you have nothing to do

ritz_avalanche · Mar 26, 2020

Poker could be like a lottery over a small sample size but over a large sample size it's a game of skill and weighted averages

mong555 · Mar 26, 2020

lottery is exactly fast poker!

vashsv · May 3, 2020

Nick301274 said:
how often did you happen to have a 100% confidence on the flop that you should win, and on the river you lose

Regardless what anyone says poker is gambling and when you gamble stuff like that happens, anyone who tells you differently does not know the meaning of the word gambling. But I think thats the whole point of poker. If lets say AA always won, the game would die because everyone would always wait for it. Plus think how often did you get there on the river, its all part of the game.

Bleeis · May 3, 2020

In small sample it can be a lottery, but in the long term it is not, it all depends on the skill of each player

bronson · May 3, 2020

I can only tell you that I have never won when holding a hand of 2 high

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