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Ujimiflip
Enthusiast
Bronze Level
I am of the strong belief that in poker your wins & losses are ONLY dependant on how your luck is for the day. I am also of the strong belief that skill means absolutely nothing if you're on a downswing, skill only works alongside a upswing.
On the MANY bad days/games,dry runs of cards are most common, then you finally get a decent hand and everyone either folds or worse, you raise, and completely miss the flop, bluff, get called, lose.
Sometimes you'll get games where it seems as if your running well, only to get your AA cracked on the bubble.
Sometimes you get nothing but decent starting hands but miss the flop every time and that maniac villan that keeps raising you with junk always hits the flop.
Every all in is a loser even though you'll had the best starting hand, but when you do win a all in is when your chips are tiny.
Then there is the shocking badbeats you never saw coming. Like flopping a full house but losing to quads on the turn,river.
River cards are your worst enemy.
Skill is useless in all the above...it simply doesn't exist in these times.
So winning at poker is only possible when good luck is present.
So what about the times that good luck present?
You miss click call and miracle a winning river card,
You flop the nuts and you're opponent/s with nothing just keeps calling.
Nearly every bluff works.
River cards are your best friend.
Every all in wins and the odd ones that lose don't damage all that much.
Seems there is always 2 players or more that hit the flop well but you always have them beat come end up.
It's real easy to think you're super skilled on the lucky times, but I'm convinced that it only appears that way because all the tricks and math work out on those lucky times.
On the MANY bad days/games,dry runs of cards are most common, then you finally get a decent hand and everyone either folds or worse, you raise, and completely miss the flop, bluff, get called, lose.
Sometimes you'll get games where it seems as if your running well, only to get your AA cracked on the bubble.
Sometimes you get nothing but decent starting hands but miss the flop every time and that maniac villan that keeps raising you with junk always hits the flop.
Every all in is a loser even though you'll had the best starting hand, but when you do win a all in is when your chips are tiny.
Then there is the shocking badbeats you never saw coming. Like flopping a full house but losing to quads on the turn,river.
River cards are your worst enemy.
Skill is useless in all the above...it simply doesn't exist in these times.
So winning at poker is only possible when good luck is present.
So what about the times that good luck present?
You miss click call and miracle a winning river card,
You flop the nuts and you're opponent/s with nothing just keeps calling.
Nearly every bluff works.
River cards are your best friend.
Every all in wins and the odd ones that lose don't damage all that much.
Seems there is always 2 players or more that hit the flop well but you always have them beat come end up.
It's real easy to think you're super skilled on the lucky times, but I'm convinced that it only appears that way because all the tricks and math work out on those lucky times.
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