Thursday, July 16, 2009
Luck Vs Skill in Texas Hold’em
There has always been an argument about poker that it is a game of luck and skill. How much luck is involved? And how much skill is involved? People have used all kinds of statistical databases to determine the answer to this question and from my research there are many varied figures. Some say it is 50% luck 50% skill, others say as little as 15% luck and even 4% luck is involved.
I sit back each night and watch televised poker. I look closely at players online poker statistics. Without doing huge mathematical equations I believe that from what I see the results speak for themselves. It is always the same well known professional poker players on final tables at the World Poker Tour. It is always the same people with high online poker win rates and statistics. This comes to make me believe there isn’t a chance on earth that Texas Hold’em could be 50% luck, if this was the case we would see different “lucky ducks” winning all the time!
A well skilled poker player can push anyone out of a hand with any 2 cards by careful analysis and precision betting. Doing this is indeed skill and that’s why we see some poker players with 6 to 12 World Series of Poker Bracelets and some players with no chance of even making it to the tournament. Indeed at times some luck is involved there is no doubt. There is also no doubt that poker; including online poker is a game of skill!
I sit back each night and watch televised poker. I look closely at players online poker statistics. Without doing huge mathematical equations I believe that from what I see the results speak for themselves. It is always the same well known professional poker players on final tables at the World Poker Tour. It is always the same people with high online poker win rates and statistics. This comes to make me believe there isn’t a chance on earth that Texas Hold’em could be 50% luck, if this was the case we would see different “lucky ducks” winning all the time!
A well skilled poker player can push anyone out of a hand with any 2 cards by careful analysis and precision betting. Doing this is indeed skill and that’s why we see some poker players with 6 to 12 World Series of Poker Bracelets and some players with no chance of even making it to the tournament. Indeed at times some luck is involved there is no doubt. There is also no doubt that poker; including online poker is a game of skill!
1 comments:
I think that luck is very significant when players are about of the same level..
July 17, 2009 at 1:38 AMPost a Comment