Yeah I tend to agree with what everyone else has been saying. I've read Zen and the ART of Poker and what Phillips said wasn't that luck affects your table image and allows you to be more successize, but that luck is cyclic and if you've been getting lucky recently, you should play more loosely because you're more likely to get lucky at that moment (or vice versa, if you've been getting unlucky you should tighten up). This goes along with the basic Buddhist belief that life in general moves in cycles, which, quite franky, I don't really buy into. Mathematically, you're no more likely to get lucky in any given hand than when you're enduring a cold streak, but the way the other players perceive you will definitely be different and they'll probably be less likely to stand up to you if you show any signs of strength.