Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
You understand me now.
You understand me now. In any game involving skill to any appreciable extent, the more skilled player will outdistance the less skilled in games won, over a long period. The more pronounced his advantage in skill, the shorter the period required in which the difference will show in money won. In the long run, then, the element of chance is canceled out, leveled off, reduced to zero.
I'm not going to try calculating the exact percentage of influence
I'm not going to try calculating the exact percentage of influence exerted by chance and skill in any single-deal Poker-game situation because: 1. Just for instance, there are 2,598,960 possible five-card hands in standard Poker. 2. No two to eight Poker players will play the same kind of game consistently, and the probabilities that the same players are dealt the same exact hands run into one in trillions. But I can assure you of this: In any Poker game, be it Stud or Draw Poker or any of their countless variations that combine skill and chance, the more skillful player will win the money in the long run. Does that settle your argument? Or are you going to keep squandering your money on that fickle, blind, perverse and cold-bloodedly fair old baggage, Lady Luck?