I Should Be So Lucky!
Apologies for the title, I just wanted an excuse to post a sexy picture of Kylie. I’m fascinated by the luck element of poker and I’m guessing many other players are too, which is kind of ironic when you consider how much time poker players spend extolling the games skill elements!
The truth is though without that bit of luck on your side you’re never going to win anything. When Greg Raymer won the main event he said he won in the region of 17 straight coinflips, which isn’t to stay he didn’t play well but just goes to show the kind of fortune required to work your way through a large field tournament.
I think a lot of us complain about our luck because its very much human nature to see everything from our own perspective and allied with a tendency to focus on the times we are particularly unlucky rather than the times we get very lucky this leads to a skewed perspective on how we fair in the good fortune stakes.
There’s hand I’m will always remember and all of them revolve around getting very unlucky on the bubble of major tournaments, of course I don’t remember the good fortune I needed to get as far as I did in the first place!
A few years ago I was at the London EPT, I had been following the progress of Chris Moneymaker all day and thought he was playing well and was really focused. Near the end of Day three well into the money he lost a coin flip and as he got up from the table he said without the slightest hint of irony, “God, I never win races”. I still smile when I think of it.
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I prefer to think of it as needing to not get unlucky, than needing to get lucky, if that makes sense!
I know what your saying Matt but someone has to run way above standard variance and some one way below. The greatest player who ever lived might never have one a thing if variance decided he was going for a lifetime being spanked. Silly game really!