Richard Wiseman also wrote about the reason why some people appear to be luckier than others, and how you can train yourself to be one of them...
It helps to explain how it is that some poker players always seem to hit when they play 63o and yet others don't.
Was watching some poker thing on telly the other day, and Hellmuth was commentating and saying that Negreanu is one of the luckiest players and also that Luke Schwartz was creating 'bad energy' by bad-mouthing people on the rail and at the table.
As for people hitting more than others, Snoopy wrote a good article (well, it wasn't bad) for a magazine that I think was published a year or so ago. It was basically outlining the basic common-sense logic that players who get their money in behind more often will deliver more outdraws than players who wait for monsters before sticking their money in. If you don't get it in behind, you can't outdraw anyone basically.
It's obvious, but I think the majority of poker players (especially the losing ones) don't seem to grasp this, and they also don't understand that although AKs v 75o is a 65% favourite pre-flop, that means that 1 in 3 times (on average), the 75o would win an all-in 'race' pre-flop. They seem to think that the odds are 100/1 they way they moan about their 'bad-beat', and how lucky the other player was.
Then there's Mitch of course...
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