From \"chip and a chair\" to tourney winner - skill or luck?
Sure, when you're down to a chip and a chair after a bad beat or just poor play, there is a certain amount of luck involved to consolidate enough chips back to see you through a one or two rounds of blinds, but it is then that you have to be a "good maniac" and use very skillful play to comeback and attack the table to regain the respect of your opponents?
I have seen this time and again and found myself in this position yesterday. I did come back and win with some skillful moves but lucky breaks to. A good example would have been the senhor_beef saga that happened on RPG recently, where he came back from a chip and a chair to win just over 70K.
Somehow I can't seem convince myself that without a few lucky breaks I would actually have been out of the tourney in no time at all.
My question is: At what point do you determine weather to play "Lucky" or "skillfully" when coming back from a "chip and a chair"?
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