luckyfish98
Legend
Platinum Level
both are equally important, but remember that the main thing is to never run out of money !
Mazembe
Rock Star
Platinum Level
I believe if you depend on luck alone, you won't get anywhere, you need to have the skill and game plan. But also,luck plays such a big part in poker, sometimes you just run good, bad hand/good hand, you are just smashing every flop.
R.Holynskyi
Visionary
Platinum Level
I think luck is still more important. Although both are key factors, luck is more important because it is not dependent on you as opposed to your skills.
R
rufininha14
Rock Star
Platinum Level
I consider skill better than luck, of course a little luck always helps, but skill and experience make all the difference when playing, knowing how to read your opponent to be able to put together the best strategy to play
Flyer35
Legend
Platinum Level
My brain tells me that skill is most important, but my experience tells me the opposite.
If you have two equally skilled players, one is lucky and one is not, who wins the game? If one has lots of good luck over the long term (25 years for example) and the other has lots of bad luck over the same period, who becomes rich?
And, if you argue that the odds are that each will be lucky or unlucky the same amount of the time on average, consider that the odds are based on an infinite number of tries. So yes, over a million years it WILL all average out. But the next 25 years represent a tiny, tiny fraction of a million years (0.0025% or 1/40,000). So the odds that each will be equally lucky/unlucky over the next 25 years are astronomically low.
If you have two equally skilled players, one is lucky and one is not, who wins the game? If one has lots of good luck over the long term (25 years for example) and the other has lots of bad luck over the same period, who becomes rich?
And, if you argue that the odds are that each will be lucky or unlucky the same amount of the time on average, consider that the odds are based on an infinite number of tries. So yes, over a million years it WILL all average out. But the next 25 years represent a tiny, tiny fraction of a million years (0.0025% or 1/40,000). So the odds that each will be equally lucky/unlucky over the next 25 years are astronomically low.
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s0ftdumps
Rock Star
Platinum Level
Always skill. What percentage of pots do you think are settled without showing cards?
hutzpaf
Legend
Loyaler
There's a saying: without luck you can't win a tournament and it's true o/
infonazar
Legend
Loyaler
Poker is 100% skill and 50% luck.” ~ Phil Hellmuth
This quote accurately reflects my view of the game
19aleks57
Legend
Platinum Level
Live poker - 70% - skill, luck - 30%
online poker - 20% - skill, luck - 80%
online poker - 20% - skill, luck - 80%
A kiravio
Legend
Loyaler
Hello. Nothing falls from the sky, everything requires a minimum of effort. Even if you don't have a lot of capital, in time you can accumulate, little by little it becomes a lot and in the end you really don't care much anymore these statistics. I hope I'm not seriously offending anyone. Have a nice day!
Lucho.riv9
Rock Star
Platinum Level
It depends on what we are talking about. If you're referring to how you will do in a specific tournament, it's probably 95% luck. However, if you play that tournament 1,000 times, luck stops being an important factor. The more hands you play, the more your skill and knowledge will stand out. Ultimately, I would say poker is 15% luck, 85% skill.