Well BART777 in my opinion no player would make it very far with luck alone if it be playing live or on the internet. I think it's 60% skill and 40% luck. If it was just luck, everyone at the table should just go all in every hand and hope luck is with them. But that's not the way it is. Do you watch the pros play. I do and they use their skill to take pots with nothing, and they also use their skill to win all the chips they can with their big hands. GL to you
Well PapaC, Not sure how much of
online poker you have played, but try not to discount BART777 assertion so quickly.
I myself have been constantly playing
poker online since 2005 and there absolutely has been a shift in how many ludicrous bad beats being presented online now days.
I have seen millions of hands being played out on line, and my observation is that something has defiantly changed on the amount of suck-outs/ so called Luck factors.
I am in no way, suggesting that the luck factor has somehow managed to defeat the laws of Mathematics and changed the percentage of randomness.
My assertion, no matter how misguided it may or may not be, is the
“Human factor”.
What so many online poker observers simply omit from their rational when it comes to online poker, is the extremely strong possibility for the modification/change in the software’s program.
Or, maybe less likely, but absolutely not out of the realm of possibility, the modification/change of the sites random generator.
There is absolutely no debate as far as I am concerned, on any change in the math vs luck factor.
But BOY!
Do I have strong issues with the probable directions from site owners instructing their programmers on the modifications of their poker
Apps.
Personal Bias: I have some programming education, so I may be more critical than many.