Thread: Luck or skill?
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Old 08-23-2005, 05:08 PM
StellarWind StellarWind is offline
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Default Re: Luck or skill?

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How do you know if your good or your lucky over the course of a session? You surely can't monitor each individual hand and see who was favored after each street.

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If you win you were lucky and if you lose you were unlucky. Luck is the primary determining factor in one session.

Consider that after a 1000 hands your EV might be 20 BB while your standard deviation is around 50 BB. Yes there will be a bias toward winning, but luck dominates the result.

To determine whether you played well you need to analyze the hands. Results don't come into it at all.
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