Poker is a confidence game imo and if you keep telling yourself how bad you run it simply doesn't do you any favours. George the first two winning pots you describe are circa 20k each. In the first your 4-5 binks vs K-K and in the second you make a move with 3-6 and the flop comes 2-4-5. You are very lucky in both imo. This great luck gets you skipping to day 2 when many would be railing. The flip side of this good luck is you also have some bad luck. This is pretty standard no? You loose a flip with 10-10...you win a pot with 10-10...you lose a pot with 10-10. I think the amount you win with good luck is greater than the amount you lose with bad isn't it? Your luck is average not soooo sick imo. The only thing you can look at is the tilty hand you played bad cos the rest is out of your hands. I think you should be satisfied with your performance. If you tell yourself you are unlucky I don't think it will help you.
This is very true Mantis. A few months ago I was your typical poker player moaning about my bad luck, whinging that I never won a flop, moaning when my aces didnt hold etc etc etc.
Think your taking my report out of context- I have merely reported on the facts. I'm not saying "I'm so unlucky blah blah blah" but as with everyone who played this, I needed my hands to hold up. Obviously I haven't reported on every hand I played but I did have to bluff an awful lot because my starting hands were not up to scratch.
When you play this way, you put yourself in a position that when you DO get a hand and it holds up, you manage to build a stack and give yourself a shot. This "luck evens out" line is a bit ridic imo.
Is this not a game of skill? Yes I got lucky when I made moves but in both pots where I did try and resteal pre- I did have a plan B. I wasn't just raising with 63 on the button to check the A49 flop.
Yes - at least 30% is skill.
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