Poker is a unique blend of both luck and skill. While luck plays an undeniable role, skill is the element that ultimately determines long-term success.
To understand the balance between these two factors, it's important to explore how each influences the game.
Luck in Poker
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Joined: Sep '19
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That depends on many things, if you play for fun, poker becomes a game of great luck and variance, but if you dedicate yourself to playing professionally this changes and luck has much less influence in the long term.
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There is a lot of luck involved in the short run but luck he's not that important in the long run good place will win in the long run but they can lose in the short run that's poker that's the game that's how it is.
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It has its side of luck and it has its side of skill, we are all going to have the same luck in the long term, but the difference is made in the player's skill, how it is acquired and improved over time.