Its all in the luck

[Al_Capone_Junior]

Don't educate them. I agree. However, if you could make them think that you have subscribed to their way of thinking, thus diverting them from the trail of bread crumbs that leads to better play. It would be nice if you could somehow show down a crappy hand in a very visible way. Try to do this without actually playing 72o UTG of course, but you get my drift.

Al Capone Junior

[Warren Whitmore]

Hi Jim,
When players said to me in the past its all luck I never knew how to reply so I just said nothing. Then I read wall street wizzards. Many of the people interviewed in the book turned hundreds of dollars into millions. One of the questions asked was "How much of your success was due to chance or luck?" the respondants would become adgitated and insist that in the long run zero % was luck or random chance all of thier fortune was gathered through the combination of hard work and skill. Except one:
He answered 100% of my fortune was built through luck. When pressed to clarify his response he explained that some people were lucky enough to be born smart and that others were not.
He is of course the only respondant who answered the question correctly. Win rate is in that sense 100% luck. The next time someone says to you its all luck smile at them and say yes in is and know that you are correct and honest.

[J_V]

Damn thats a good post.

[Warren Whitmore]