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Which one is more important when you are playing? I think both of them are important, if you have a strategy which works for you then with a bit of luck you can earn some money. If you are lucky and use a stradegy you have reasd somewhere then you can also win. What do you think?
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Strategy is very important in poker,because whitout of it you will soon go broke,and luck well that is we always have to someone happen more and someone less,but that is smething we all have....but whem we get unlucky it is more talked about that when we get lucky.........
Yes ofcourse there's luck/variance involved, its an inherent part of the game, but without the proper strategy & good skills, you could never be a consistenly winning player, simple as.
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Posted by cyberbabel: Which one is more important when you are playing? I think both of them are important, if you have a strategy which works for you then with a bit of luck you can earn some money. If you are lucky and use a stradegy you have reasd somewhere then you can also win. What do you think?
Both are essentual in my opinion as luck can get you out of a little trouble when your stratergy might let you down. But in the samr vein if your stratergy is sound and working luck can some times see you through. So to sum up BOTH are good but luck can only see you so far so stratergy is the key to winning poker. Get your stratergy down and reep the rewards.
Joined: Jan '09
Location: New Zealand
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For long term, strategy. For short term, strategy with a bit of luck
I prefer to play consistently well than be lucky here and there. Not only does strategy improve your game but it also teaches you even with the best play, you dont always win. thus you dont get fustrated when you constantly lose and tilt from luck when you still play well
Joined: Jan '09
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luck comes and luck goes away, then comes back again then disappears for days and so on...
if you have a good strategy you can always have it with u
so I vote for strategy
...but ... without luck, expecially in tournaments, you won't have good results meanwhile in cash game, if u are a goodplayer, I think in the long term u can win the same
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Yea tournament... when for sure u will be in some coin flip situation u need a luck... I saw in many tournaments donks who go high with just a luck... It's 50/50 for me because without 1 of this 2 u just can't win anything.
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For me there is not more than 30% of luck, and other % are strategy part, so i think that with a good strategy (even if not that much luck) you can earn money fastly because when you have a good strategy, even a downswing is not too big !
------------ And damn olli1e, this profile picture make me think to Dunotra ! Might he be the guy?
Joined: May '08
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Strategy ftw Uber long run there is no luck involved its all about skills/strategy. For example my game: my ROI at $50 and lower is positiv, at $200 stakes SNG its negativ, thtas bad luck? No way!, its just that average player on $200 stakes have better skills then me, i need to improve my game else i get slammed all the time.
Posted by Tchungpo: For me there is not more than 30% of luck, and other % are strategy part, so i think that with a good strategy (even if not that much luck) you can earn money fastly because when you have a good strategy, even a downswing is not too big !
------------ And damn olli1e, this profile picture make me think to Dunotra ! Might he be the guy?
Uber long run there is no luck involved its all about skills/strategy.
