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[QUOTE="NWPatriot, post: 6013389, member: 331149"]
Importance:  Luck 90%, technical skill 10%, practice 0%
If I could choose which I would rather have, I would choose good luck every time.  This is how an unskilled person gets to win.

Reality:  Luck 65%, technical skill 25%, practice 10%
Luck is 65% of the game whether we think it is important or not.  We cannot do anything about it.  Skill must be the most important thing that we can control.  Practice is every bit as important as skill, but it is only how we obtain skill, it is not the thing we seek to perfect.

As for luck, if we divide up a hold'em hand into skill elements and luck elements, we might find that there are 9 pieces of luck in a single hand (my 2 cards, your 2 cards, and the 5 cards on the board), and we might find that we have to make 4-6 decisions in a single hand (at least one decision per street and possibly 1 or 2 more if there raises along the way).  So, 9/13= 69% luck or 9/15 = 60% luck.  This is just the way it is.  All of our skill and practice is trying to overcome a game that is 2/3's luck.

Good luck and God bless.
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